ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio University officials say they’regoing ahead with the demolition of an
historic campus building thatstudent folklore suggests is haunted.Preservationists had beentrying to
persuade the university to spare the 88-year-old RidgesBuilding 26, or old Beacon School. It was built as a
tuberculosis wardto a historically significant state mental hospital that operated on theproperty for more
than a century beginning in 1868.But The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/11TljpP ) reports that OU announced this
week that the building will be razed next month.The building is empty, and OU has said it is an
"attractive nuisance," frequently subject to trespassing and vandalism.Theuniversity obtained the
building and others collectively known as TheRidges from the Ohio Department of Mental Health in a land
swap.___Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.comCopyright 2013 The Associated
Press.ATHENS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio University officials say they’regoing ahead with the demolition of an
historic campus building thatstudent folklore suggests is haunted.Preservationists had beentrying to
persuade the university to spare the 88-year-old RidgesBuilding 26, or old Beacon School. It was built as a
tuberculosis wardto a historically significant state mental hospital that operated on theproperty for more
than a century beginning in 1868.But The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/11TljpP ) reports that OU announced this
week that the building will be razed next month.The building is empty, and OU has said it is an
"attractive nuisance," frequently subject to trespassing and vandalism.Theuniversity obtained the
building and others collectively known as TheRidges from the Ohio Department of Mental Health in a land
swap.___Information from: The Columbus Dispatch, http://www.dispatch.comCopyright 2013 The Associated
Press.