A person of Ravenna’s oldest downtown landmarks, vacant for five a long time, is undergoing a renovation.
The former Triangle Pharmacy, which closed in 2017, is undergoing renovations to make the house a lot more wheelchair accessible.
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Pamela Country Calhoun, govt director of Portage Metropolitan Housing Authority, said the agency, which owns the constructing, is “completing an inside renovation of the property …to enable for accessibility.” The Etna Property next door, which PMHA also owns, is not affected, she explained.
The structure at Park Way and West Major Avenue was built just after the Civil War as the Etna Block. When it first opened in 1868, the building housed a hotel and seven retail retailers, in accordance to “The Ravenna Reserve” by Thomas Gregory.
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The corner retail place opened as the Triangle Pharmacy in 1948. Former owners Jim Coll and Andy Drnjevich purchased the pharmacy in 1992, and immediately introduced a renovation. They added the back part of the retail outlet, which at the time linked to the lobby of the previous Ravenna Resort, and established up a lunch counter and modernized pharmacy.
The remaining portion of the building was renovated for senior housing in the early 1980s, a undertaking that was two years old when metropolis leaders used to have the Ravenna downtown district place on the Countrywide Sign-up of Historic Places in 1985.
Gregory’s book states that a group of nearby businessmen arrived together to construct the Etna Block following the Prentiss Dwelling Block was ruined by fireplace in 1860. Col. Simeon Porter was the architect. The room housed various outlets, like a washroom and barber shop, and the entrance to the hotel originally was at the corner of the developing.
Kevin Grey, vice president of the Portage County Historic Culture, said he is glad to see financial investment staying made into the constructing.
“I would say it’s a landmark,” he explained. “It truly is 1 of the most recognizable buildings in Ravenna since of the architecture and the persons who applied it.”
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