| Additional Information: | 1982: Long rectangular two story brick building with symmetrical facade and one story side extension. Brick corbel table with cement sills and lintels.
2017 report information:
This two-story, flat-roofed and (red, orange and green-tone) brick-clad structure rises from a concrete foundation. A stone watertable encircles the building above the basement fenestration, which consists of two-light sash windows. One-over-one, double-hung sash with soldier brick headers and stone sills dominate the building with the exception of the pair of picture windows along the west façade and the windows of the single-story, solarium wing that projects to the south (which are three-over-one sash examples). A central, wood-and-glass door is located between the two plate-glass picture windows and topped with a flat-roof overhang; it is accessed via a two-sided staircase with a brick stairwall, the center of which reads “MEDICAL SERVICE BUILDING,” a former name of the structure. Modest decorative elements include the windowheads, a corbeled brick parapet, as well as raised brick that is set in rectangles. A historic image of the building, included in the Ashland City Directory, indicates that the original entrance was located along 3rd Street West, where the solarium wing is now located.
This structure, originally identified as ‘The Clinic ,” was erected by Dr. John M. Dodd in 1920. Dr. Dodd had previously been located at 220 Main Street East in a building he erected in 1913. As of 1922, The Clinic included the following physicians in addition to Dodd: Adellon P. and Adellon D. Andrus, Clyde Smiles, John Gregory and Herman Mertens. In addition, Registered Nurse Emelia Peterson was listed as working there; notably she also served as the treasurer of the clinic. In 1924, the solarium wing was added, at which time the building entrance was shifted from 3rd Street West to 7th Avenue West (present-day Chapple Avenue). The clinic was later known as the Dodd Clinic. Following Dr. Dodd’s retirement, a permit was applied for in 1940 to alter the building into apartments. As evidenced by city directories, that didn’t immediately come to fruition, as the building continued to serve as a physicians’ group practice clinic into at least the early 1970s (1971), during which time it was known as the Medical Arts Building, which also included dentists. The building was eventually converted for apartment use. |
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| Bibliographic References: | 1982: [A] EDITH CULVER DODD, 610 ELLIS AND LTHE HOSPITAL CHILDREN
Citations for information included in Additional Comments below:
Please note that the “Ashland Clinic,” which operated at the same time, was a different clinic, which was located in the Knight Hotel,
Edith Dodd Culver, 610 Ellis and the Hospital Children (Ashland, WI: Browzer Books, 1978), 187, 199-201; Permit for addition to “Ashland General Clinic,” 11 April 1924, permit drawn by Thomas Pugh, this and all following permit citations are from a handwritten list compiled in 2000 by Traci E. Schnell from permits located in the assessor’s office; since that time, the permits have not been located; Images of the clinic before the entrance change can be seen in the city directories up until 1928; Ashland City Directory, 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1937, 1954, 1956, 1958, 1971; Permit to alter “Dr. Dodd Clinic” to build apartments, 13 November 1940, est. cost, $1,500. |
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