One of Auglaize County's historic landmarks is being erased from the landscape this week, as demolition is underway on the sprawling Auglaize Acres building near Wapakoneta. Located on the site of the original Auglaize County Infirmary that was established in 1857, the current building began as a replacement infirmary built in 1909 at a cost of $68,000. In 1976 the county added a 78-bed addition onto the original structure, and the facility, then a county nursing home, was renamed Auglaize Acres. County commissioners privatized the nursing facility in 2018, and it became Odem at Auglaize after being purchased by Odem in 2021. The building has been closed since April 2024. Auglaize County received more than $1 million in Brownfield grant funding from the state of Ohio to complete asbestos remediation and demolish the building. County officials are hopeful the site will be redeveloped as a new senior living center.