It was, by some accounts, one of the largest poured concrete buildings in the United States. It is, by any account, massive. But when it opened in July 1915, the Lima State Hospital for the criminally insane, built to house 1,100 patients, had only one, and newspapers across the state jumped on the story. ... read full story
"Giovanni Catino, an Italian, has the largest and most expensive home in the United States and probably a larger corps of personal attendants than any one man in America,"