DeVilbiss High School - Pot O Gold Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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THGMAS A. DEVILBISS . . . The beautiful building above shows no signs that a pest house once stood on the same grounds DeVilbiss now stands. The exchange of the seventeen acre site of the Isolation Hospital on Upton Avenue for twenty-seven acres of land along the Terminal Railroad between Central and Monroe, then owned by the Board of Education, was recommended by the Director of Public Service and the Director of Public Welfare. The hospital site was purchased from the city for 390,000 The adjoining ten acres to the hos- pital had already been purchased by the school board. The city reserved one corner of the lot for a new West End fire station. Under the terms of the sale, the city was to continue the operation of the hospital on the property until l93l. lt was anticipated that the city would use the money received for the property to build a new contagious di- sease hospital, adjacent to the new county hospital on Detroit Avenue. As the four hundred and fifty pupils of Mcliinley lunior l-ligh School, future DeVilbiss students, gathered for the ground-breaking ceremony, Mrs. Thomas DeVilbiss, widow of the Toledoan for whom the new school was named, lifted the first shovelful of earth. A few minutes later the heavy steam shovel had moved into place and work on the finest of Toledo's high schools had begun. Charles Meek, superintendent of Toledo schools, paid high tribute to the memory of Thomas DeVilbiss, Toledo business man and I6