Friends of the Westerville Tea House and Shrine, a Central Ohio group, is working to preserve one of the bonsai related buildings at 99 S. State St. The structures are to be demolished. However, the Friends intend to protect over 300,000 inch-square tiles lining the walls to portray  murals of Mount Fuji, waterfalls, and Japanese and bonsai tree gardens. The Friends plan to research and prepare a book or documentary about the site. Parts of a Shinto shrine built next to it by Okinawan craftsmen are in storage for the Franklin Park Conservatory (of gardens), which is considering the shrine as a centerpiece for a Japanese lake and garden to included bonsai gardens and bonsai tree care in Westerville by 2010. The Conservatory already conducts periodic classes in bonsai tree growth and bonsai gardens.