WEBVTT 00:00:11.177 --> 00:00:12.579 >> HERE'S WHAT'S MAKING NEWS 00:00:12.645 --> 00:00:15.148 AROUND INDIANA. 00:00:15.215 --> 00:00:17.317 THIS WEEK, WE RESUME OUR 00:00:17.384 --> 00:00:18.418 ENDANGERED INDIANA SERIES. 00:00:18.485 --> 00:00:19.586 IN GRANT COUNTY, A FAMILY OF 00:00:19.652 --> 00:00:20.887 DOCTORS IN THE EARLY FIFTIES 00:00:20.954 --> 00:00:22.555 BROUGHT INNOVATIVE MEDICINE - 00:00:22.622 --> 00:00:24.224 AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN TO 00:00:24.290 --> 00:00:25.392 MARION. 00:00:25.458 --> 00:00:26.693 AROUND INDIANA REPORTER 00:00:26.760 --> 00:00:28.695 MARY-RACHEL REDMAN HAS MORE ON 00:00:28.762 --> 00:00:30.897 THE STORIED DAVIS CLINIC. 00:00:30.964 --> 00:00:32.732 >> YOU KNOW, IF YOU WERE TO 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:34.467 FOLLOW A BUSY DOCTOR, AS HE 00:00:34.534 --> 00:00:36.169 MAKES HIS DAILY ROUND OF CALLS, 00:00:36.236 --> 00:00:37.737 YOU WOULD FIND YOURSELF HAVING A 00:00:37.804 --> 00:00:39.439 MIGHTY BUSY TIME KEEPING UP WITH 00:00:39.506 --> 00:00:39.739 HIM. 00:00:39.806 --> 00:00:41.975 >> BUT THE DAVIS FAMILY OF 00:00:42.041 --> 00:00:43.743 DOCTORS WEREN'T JUST BUSY. 00:00:43.810 --> 00:00:46.913 THEY WERE A RARE BREED. 00:00:46.980 --> 00:00:49.549 >> IT'S THIS MAYO CLINIC, 00:00:49.616 --> 00:00:52.886 DOCTORS -- THE ARTS, ALL THESE 00:00:52.952 --> 00:00:55.555 THINGS, IT'S A KIND OF A 00:00:55.622 --> 00:00:56.222 FASCINATING STORY. 00:00:56.289 --> 00:00:57.390 >> THAT IT IS. 00:00:57.457 --> 00:01:00.226 IT STARTED WITH PATRIARCH 00:01:00.293 --> 00:01:03.830 DR. MERYL DAVIS AND WIFE 00:01:03.897 --> 00:01:05.064 JOSEPHINE, DESCRIBED AS MARIAN'S 00:01:05.131 --> 00:01:07.033 MATRIARCH OF THE ARTS. 00:01:07.100 --> 00:01:10.703 >> MY GRANDPARENTS WERE VERY 00:01:10.770 --> 00:01:12.806 MUCH INTO ARCHITECTURE AND ART. 00:01:12.872 --> 00:01:15.675 >> MAJOR ART PATRONS THAT WERE 00:01:15.742 --> 00:01:17.143 EXTREMELY WELL CONNECTED. 00:01:17.210 --> 00:01:19.846 THE COUPLE ONCE HOSTED AMELIA 00:01:19.913 --> 00:01:20.113 EARHART. 00:01:20.180 --> 00:01:22.115 >> IT WAS VERY INTERESTING, AS 00:01:22.182 --> 00:01:22.348 ALWAYS. 00:01:22.415 --> 00:01:25.385 >> AT THE HEIGHT OF HER NAME IN 00:01:25.452 --> 00:01:26.386 THEIR MARIAN HOME. 00:01:26.453 --> 00:01:27.887 IT'S NOT EXACTLY SURPRISING THAT 00:01:27.954 --> 00:01:29.756 JUST OVER A DECADE LATER THEIR 00:01:29.823 --> 00:01:31.991 SON RICHARD, NOW A MAYO CLINIC 00:01:32.058 --> 00:01:34.961 TRAINED SURGEON WAS WORKING WITH 00:01:35.028 --> 00:01:36.095 WORLD FAMOUS ARCHITECT FRANK 00:01:36.162 --> 00:01:37.797 LLOYD WRIGHT TO DESIGN A MODERN 00:01:37.864 --> 00:01:40.633 HOME IN THE HILLS OF MARIAN. 00:01:40.700 --> 00:01:43.803 >> IF THE THING IS SUCCESSFUL, 00:01:43.870 --> 00:01:45.171 YOU CAN'T IMAGINE THAT HOUSE 00:01:45.238 --> 00:01:47.440 ANYWHERE THAN RIGHT WHERE IT IS. 00:01:47.507 --> 00:01:49.776 >> UNCLE DICK BUILD THIS FRANK 00:01:49.843 --> 00:01:50.777 LLOYD WRIGHT RIGHT IN SHADY 00:01:50.844 --> 00:01:50.977 HILLS. 00:01:51.044 --> 00:01:53.279 AS PREPARING TO DO THAT, HE AND 00:01:53.346 --> 00:01:55.114 MY GRANDFATHER AND UNCLE AND MY 00:01:55.181 --> 00:01:56.616 DAD ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD BE 00:01:56.683 --> 00:01:57.851 INTERESTED IN DESIGNING A 00:01:57.917 --> 00:01:59.085 MEDICAL BUILDING. 00:01:59.152 --> 00:02:02.322 WELL, HE SAID HE HAD NOT DONE 00:02:02.388 --> 00:02:02.989 THAT BEFORE 00:02:03.056 --> 00:02:05.158 >> WRIGHT DECLINED THE OFFER, IT 00:02:05.225 --> 00:02:09.262 WOULD BE AWARDED TO ANOTHER 00:02:09.329 --> 00:02:13.233 ARCHITECT, A GUY BY THE NAME OF 00:02:13.299 --> 00:02:13.566 HARRY WEISE. 00:02:13.633 --> 00:02:16.102 >> HE ALSO DESIGNED THE METRO IN 00:02:16.169 --> 00:02:16.503 WASHINGTON, D.C. 00:02:16.569 --> 00:02:19.806 >> THE DAVIS CLINIC WAS BORN IN 00:02:19.873 --> 00:02:21.674 1952, BRINGING MAYO CLINIC-LIKE 00:02:21.741 --> 00:02:24.511 CARE TO THE RESIDENTS OF MARIAN, 00:02:24.577 --> 00:02:24.777 INDIANA. 00:02:24.844 --> 00:02:27.113 >> MARIAN, UP UNTIL BEFORE THE 00:02:27.180 --> 00:02:29.949 WAR, DID NOT HAVE SPECIALISTS. 00:02:30.016 --> 00:02:32.785 >> THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE 00:02:32.852 --> 00:02:34.287 NOWADAYS JUST ASSUME ARE 00:02:34.354 --> 00:02:38.791 AVAILABLE TO THEM IN TERMS OF 00:02:38.858 --> 00:02:40.460 MEDICAL CARE WERE STARTED HERE. 00:02:40.527 --> 00:02:42.729 >> PERHAPS WHAT MADE THE DAVIS 00:02:42.795 --> 00:02:44.964 CLINIC SO UNIQUE, ITS ABILITY TO 00:02:45.031 --> 00:02:46.466 RECRUIT SOME OF THE COUNTRY'S 00:02:46.533 --> 00:02:50.436 BEST TRAINED DOCTORS, 00:02:50.503 --> 00:02:51.137 INCLUDING -- 00:02:51.204 --> 00:02:54.807 >> ONE OF THE FIRST FEMALES TO 00:02:54.874 --> 00:02:55.708 GRADUATE FROM HARVARD MEDICAL 00:02:55.775 --> 00:02:56.910 SCHOOL, AND SHE CAME TO MARIAN. 00:02:56.976 --> 00:02:58.177 >> AS YOU REMEMBER IT, DOES THIS 00:02:58.244 --> 00:02:59.279 STILL LOOK THE SAME? 00:02:59.345 --> 00:03:02.982 >> YES, EXCEPT FOR THAT THING 00:03:03.049 --> 00:03:03.950 ADDED ON THE FRONT. 00:03:04.017 --> 00:03:06.119 >> IT'S NO LONGER REST CARE. 00:03:06.185 --> 00:03:07.987 DID THAT SAY DAVIS CLINIC. 00:03:08.054 --> 00:03:09.722 >> AND WHEN I WAS BORN, I THINK 00:03:09.789 --> 00:03:11.324 IT WAS STILL ONE STORY. 00:03:11.391 --> 00:03:12.926 THEY ADDED THE SECOND AND THIRD 00:03:12.992 --> 00:03:14.427 STORIES ON ABOUT 1960. 00:03:14.494 --> 00:03:17.230 >> IT WAS ATTRACTIVE, AND IT WAS 00:03:17.297 --> 00:03:17.463 BRIGHT. 00:03:17.530 --> 00:03:18.898 I REMEMBER THE FISH TANKS. 00:03:18.965 --> 00:03:20.233 >> I REMEMBER MY GRANDMOTHER 00:03:20.300 --> 00:03:24.337 BEING A HUGE PART OF THIS. 00:03:24.404 --> 00:03:27.574 SHE WAS BEHIND THE DESIGN AND 00:03:27.640 --> 00:03:28.641 THE ARTS. 00:03:28.708 --> 00:03:30.543 AND YOU KNOW, IT IS ALMOST LIKE 00:03:30.610 --> 00:03:31.444 A MUSEUM TO ME. 00:03:31.511 --> 00:03:33.413 >> WHY IS IT IMPORTANT? 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:34.614 I THINK THE LEGACY OF THE CLINIC 00:03:34.681 --> 00:03:37.116 AND WHAT THAT MEANT FOR THE TOWN 00:03:37.183 --> 00:03:38.284 IS WORTH PRESERVING. 00:03:38.351 --> 00:03:40.353 WHEN YOU TEAR THE BUILDING DOWN, 00:03:40.420 --> 00:03:43.089 THEN A LOT OF THE MEMORY GOES 00:03:43.156 --> 00:03:43.289 AWAY. 00:03:43.356 --> 00:03:45.925 >> ANYBODY THAT DRIVES BY TODAY, 00:03:45.992 --> 00:03:47.393 IT IS JUST MAYBE ANOTHER 00:03:47.460 --> 00:03:48.428 BUILDING, BUT THE HISTORY BEHIND 00:03:48.494 --> 00:03:51.030 IT, IF THEY KNEW THE LIVES THAT 00:03:51.097 --> 00:03:54.467 WERE ENTWINED IN IT AND WHAT 00:03:54.534 --> 00:03:58.905 CREATED IT, THE STORY IS JUST 00:03:58.972 --> 00:03:59.973 REALLY -- IT'S PRETTY COOL.