Elmwood Assisted Living at the Shawhan

07/23/2025

We sure enjoyed the perfect weather yesterday!

07/19/2025

Here are a few more pictures from the fun we had this week! Trishaw rides from Cycling without age are always a great time. 😀

07/18/2025

If you have a loved one at The Shawhan please join us August 8th from 1pm-4pm for a carnival! We will have games, a petting zoo, a dunk tank, face painting and carnival food. All food items and dunk tank tickets will be $1.00 each and the proceeds will go to our team in the Walk to End Alzheimer’s. It will be fun for all ages! All games will be free as well as the petting zoo and other activities. Donations to support our team are also appreciated, see our main office if you are interested in supporting us.

07/17/2025

A little history

Then and Now – Today, we’re comparing views looking at the E. Perry Street side entrance of the Shawhan Hotel in Tiffin, Ohio. The top photo was taken around 1980 before the downtown streetscape project was to begin. At this time, the Shawhan Hotel was “mothballed”, waiting for a plan to have it restored after its devastating fire in December 1976. We can see in this photo that there was a basement entrance that was once used for the barber shop at the Shawhan Hotel.

We checked the Tiffin city directories to get some history on these barber shops. The first listing that we found was in 1908 and the barbers were “Strong & Montague”. By 1914, it became the Shawhan Hotel Barber Shop with Pohlable & Fellers the barbers. Then in the early 1920’s, the Shawhan Barber Shop was manned by Bernard Pohlable and Duff Clapper and it remained with that team until around 1950. From 1953 until 1963, the directory listed this as the Shawhan Hotel Barber Shop, but it didn’t list who the barbers were. It looks like 1963 was the end of this barber shop because there were no more listings after that. The Shawhan Hotel was finally saved and the entrance to the basement barber shop was closed for good, as seen in the bottom current photo.

07/16/2025

More pictures from our luau today! The rain can’t stop us from having fun!!

07/16/2025

Aloha from The Shawhan! Elvis came back to see us today!

07/04/2025

Happy 4th of July!

06/21/2025

Here are a few videos from tonight, listen to all the laughter! This is the last of the prom posts, thanks for looking!

06/21/2025

06/21/2025

More prom photos from our awesome prom tonight!

06/21/2025

We hosted our first prom for our residents and boy was it a hit! A big thank you to the staff that helped put it together! Shout out to maggie Powell and Heidi tong for coming in to do hair. Our staff made sure the residents all looked nice and we had an awesome turn out! It was so great to see so many family members join us. We will definitely put on another one 💃🏼🕺✨