The carriage house that was once part of the Cincinnati estate whereDr. Albert Sabindiscovered a landmark polio vaccine recently hit the market for $725,000.
Sabin − who created the first effective and widely used live virus oral polio vaccine − lived in an adjacent single-family residence on Lafayette Avenue in Cincinnati's Clifton neighborhood that was originally built in the late 1850s for industrialist Alexander Neave
.Historic carriage house listed for $725K
The estate's more than 2,500-square-foot carriage house at 407 Lafayette Ave., has four bedrooms and two baths and sits on about three-quarters of an acre, according to the listing from Keller Williams Advisors.
The house has updated mechanicals, custom cabinetry, French doors and a walkout lower level.
Sabin moved from New York
to Cincinnati to conduct virus research at the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation from 1939 to 1969, according to the Clifton community council.
Home once part of Dr. Albert Sabin's Clifton estate
Sabin and his family moved into the main house on the estate at 403 Lafayette Ave., in 1947. There, he established established a personal laboratory, where he worked on the vaccine, according to historical accounts.
In 1960, Cincinnati became the testing ground for the vaccine's first major U.S. public distribution, according to Cincinnati Children's.
More than 20,000 children received it that day, and more than 180,000 children in the region received the vaccine within two weeks. It became known as Sabin Sunday.
Sabin died March 3, 1993 at age 86.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Live on the estate where Albert Sabin discovered polio vaccine
