Saints Peter and Paul Seminary

Its Heath campus was subsequently acquired by the Diocese of Columbus and operated as a retreat house and as a convent for Dominican Nuns of the Perpetual Rosary until their departure in 2023.

At the invitation of Bishop Michael Ready in 1948, PIME began staffing St. John the Baptist Church in the Italian Village neighborhood of Columbus, the community's first presence in Central Ohio.

[1][2] In 1953, Augustine Wherle, a successful but aging Columbus businessman with a farm of more than 500 acres situated near Newark was looking for a charitable organization to donate his property to when Bishop Ready, a friend of his, told him about PIME's work.

[1] On August 15, 1955, Wherle deeded the land to PIME and construction on the building, designed by architect Victor Basso with influences from Chinese architecture,[1] began in June 1956.

[12] It continued to be used by PIME for retreats, meetings, and as a hub for ministry and missionary awareness in local parishes[1] until the property was closed by the order and sold to the Diocese of Columbus in 2003.