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1866 The Civil War leaves hundreds of widows and orphans. Kentucky Masons envision a Masonic Widows and Orphans Home and Infirmary in Louisville. |
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1867 Charter and incorporation documents for proposed home are finalized. |
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1871 The Home opens on April 7 near downtown Louisville. |
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1872-1884 A school is established for orphans. Practical industries become part of Home life, teaching residents shoemaking, printing, chair caning, cooking, gardening and canning, while also providing usable commodities. |
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1890 The first registered nurse is hired. |
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1901 The Old Mason’s Home opens east of Shelbyville. |
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1918 Influx of children orphaned by World War I and the influenza epidemic overcrowds the Home. Plans commence to raise money for a new home on a larger site. |
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1925 127 acres is acquired between the Louisville city limits and St. Matthews, and the cornerstone laid for construction of what would become a schoolhouse. |
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1926 New Home is dedicated and residents move from the old Home, designed to be a self-sufficient campus. |
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1928 Noted landscape architects the Olmsted Brothers complete the site’s master plan. |
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1930 The largest population of children (632) live at the Louisville home. |
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1954 The Home’s on-campus school is closed and children living at the Home attend public schools. |
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1989 The Home’s last orphan leaves, and the Home focuses on providing senior care, building a personal care facility with 104 beds. |
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1993 Masonic Widows and Orphans Home and Old Mason’s Home merge to form the Masonic Homes of Kentucky. |
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1997 Six of the cottages that housed widows and orphans are renovated into senior apartments. The old dining hall is renovated and renamed The Olmsted, becoming a Louisville landmark for events and weddings. |
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2001 Spring Hill Village Retirement Community in Taylor Mill is established. |
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2002 The Louisville campus is named to the National Register of Historic Places. |
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2004 A Masonic Home Museum opens in the old gymnasium, where the Masonic Homes of Kentucky corporate offices are located. |
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2006 The Feltman Community Center, including a fitness center, guest apartment, full kitchen and meeting rooms, opens for residents of Spring Hill Village. |
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2007 The Pillars Assisted Living Community, featuring 21 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, opens at the Masonic Home of Shelbyville. |
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2007 Board members and Home’s staff turn ground on the new Masonic Home of Louisville Care Center. |
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2008 Masonic Homes of Kentucky receives a Certificate of Need to build a prescribed pediatriac extended care facility on the Louisville campus. Plans begin to create the Kosair Charities Pediatric Day Care Center to serve medically fragile as well as typical children. |
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2009 Comprehensive rehabilitation programs are established on the Louisville and Shelbyville campuses to serve residents and the surrounding communities. |
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2009 Club Olmsted, a social center for Masonic Home Village residents, opens in the lower level of Johnson Hall in the center of the Louisville campus. |
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