As recently as 1995, Shady Lane Manors, the old county home, housed two dozen elderly or developmentally disabled residents.

However, Delaware County commissioners ordered the home closed in 1996 after residents voted down a tax levy that would have kept it open. The year after it closed, a thunderstorm ripped the roof off and filled the 150-year-old county home with water. Recent interior photos of the derelict building, taken by amateur photographer Adam Leferve, shows the county home is worse for the wear.... Cont'd