MONROE - Although the St. Clare Center at Monroe Clinic will cease to be, residents will have the opportunity to own a piece of the historic building next month.
Monroe Clinic will begin selling bricks of the St. Clare Center at its gift shop next month, said Patricia Lawson, director of marketing and business development at Monroe Clinic.
"A lot of people have been born and raised here - even born in the St. Clare Center," Lawson said. "We felt compelled to commemorate the building this way."
The bricks will each be adorned with a plaque showing an image of the St. Clare Hospital as it was when it was founded in 1939. Each one will sell for $25, with all proceeds going to the Monroe Clinic Hospital Foundation.
"They're valuable, but most of that is sentimental value," Lawson said.
The oldest portion of the St. Clare Center is in its final phases of demolition in preparation for a significant expansion to the clinic. The eastern portion of the former hospital, which was built in 1938, will be replaced by a lot during the expansion's construction.
After the expansion is completed in 2019 or 2020, the remainder of the center, which was built in 1970, will be demolished.
"We want to acknowledge the huge effort the hospital represented to the community in the 1930s and today," Lawson said.
- Michael Brestovansky
Monroe Clinic will begin selling bricks of the St. Clare Center at its gift shop next month, said Patricia Lawson, director of marketing and business development at Monroe Clinic.
"A lot of people have been born and raised here - even born in the St. Clare Center," Lawson said. "We felt compelled to commemorate the building this way."
The bricks will each be adorned with a plaque showing an image of the St. Clare Hospital as it was when it was founded in 1939. Each one will sell for $25, with all proceeds going to the Monroe Clinic Hospital Foundation.
"They're valuable, but most of that is sentimental value," Lawson said.
The oldest portion of the St. Clare Center is in its final phases of demolition in preparation for a significant expansion to the clinic. The eastern portion of the former hospital, which was built in 1938, will be replaced by a lot during the expansion's construction.
After the expansion is completed in 2019 or 2020, the remainder of the center, which was built in 1970, will be demolished.
"We want to acknowledge the huge effort the hospital represented to the community in the 1930s and today," Lawson said.
- Michael Brestovansky