Put up a Parking Lot

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The property will become a parking lot for Wayne Memorial Hospital’s maintenance vehicles, said hospital spokesperson Jeanne Gieckel.
“It would be too costly to repair the building; it’s too far gone,” said Gieckel. “I understand it would need a lot of work.”
Maurice Meagher, their son, said the home is at least 100 years old, probably built in the late 1800s or early 1900s, to the best of his memory.
The hospital acquired the home about 10 years ago. It was used for apartments.
“I think this house is just one more step in time. It was where I was born and raised.” said Meagher. “They need their parking area.”
The couple, who passed away in 1989 and 1996, respectively, taught in Wayne County schools for more than 50 years.
They started teaching when they were eighteen-years old and would influence the “lives of thousands and thousands of children ... for three generations,” he said.
Mrs. Meagher was one of the last teachers in the county to teach at a one-room schoolhouse - in Rileyville from about 1947 to 1957.
She also taught at the old Stourbridge School. The former school building at 648 Park Street is now used for county offices.
Meagher Sr. taught history and civics at Honesdale High School.
“He was famous for having news” reported by students in front of the class, said Meagher, before the television news era.
The hospital has removed houses in the past to support its operations. Some buildings of historic nature, however, have been saved and reused for medical services or offices.
Also in 1981, the Wayne County Historical Society relocated the brick office of Jason Torrey, the surveyor who laid out Honesdale in the 1820’s, from the hospital’s grounds. It is now an annex of the historical society’s museum on Main Street.
Wayne Memorial Hospital moved to Park Street in 1951 and has undergone several expansion proje