WOLF LAKE, Ind. (AP) — The owner of a small northern Indiana town’s former hospital that’s become a medical museum is looking for someone to take it over.
The Luckey Hospital Museum building in the Noble County community of Wolf Lake dates to 1931 when it was opened as a hospital by Dr. James Luckey. After closing in the 1950s the building was used as a nursing home and apartments before two great-nieces bought it in 2000 and started displaying their collection of medical memorabilia.
Eighty-three-year-old Shirley Hile tells The Kendallville News Sun that she can’t keep up the museum anymore since her sister died a year ago. Hile hopes a buyer will keep the museum intact.
A museum anniversary celebration is planned for July 13.
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Thats going to be a tough sell. Wolf Lake dose not have any type of tourist attraction to bring people in. The local community does not have enough population to support it.
My guess is the demolition will cost more then the property is worth.
I understand it a family legacy and she wants to keep it alive, but that is a bad investment.
How rude can u be ? Might be the truth but that has been in her family for a very long time. How would u feel if shoe was on other foot? Both my aunt’s was born in luckeys hospital also. I think they should keep it open, maybe the town could buy it and keep it open with volunteers running it?