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Help with bathing, dressing and grooming
Unhurried, private and on the schedule each resident prefers.
Care level
Assisted living · Nacogdoches, Texas
Saturday nights, the parlor rug rolls back.
Thirty-two apartments in Texas's oldest town, a camellia garden that blooms in February, and help with the hard parts of the day so the good parts get your full attention.
A house with manners
We still dress for Sunday dinner.
Camellia House opened in 1996 in a white-columned home on North Mound Street, and some customs came with the building: linen on the dining tables, a piano that gets played every evening, and a parlor where the furniture is pushed to the walls on Saturday nights so anyone who wants to can dance.
Behind the manners is real care. Our nurse writes every plan with the resident and family, caregivers are awake and on the halls all night, and medications are handled with the same attention our cook gives the Sunday roast.
— Antoinette Dupree, executive director
What sets us apart
Where we shine
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Three meals on linen, plus Sunday dinner
Southern cooking, special diets honored, and pie on Sundays.
Included
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Saturday parlor dances
A volunteer pianist, a record player for the requests, and punch in the good glasses.
WeeklyPhoto tour
Evenings at Camellia House
Sample family reviews
Letters from families
Mama won a jitterbug contest in 1952 and has told us about it every year since. At Camellia House she finally has people who want to see her do it.
The Sunday dinners undid me. White tablecloths, rolls from scratch, Daddy in his good tie. It felt like my grandmother's table.
When Mother's medication changed twice in a month, the nurse called me both times before the first new dose. That told me everything.
I am ninety-one and I have a dance card again. Write that down.
They planted a camellia outside Dad's window because he grew them for forty years. He waters it himself.
Caregivers wanted
Kind people, steady shifts and paid training.
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On North Mound, under the magnolias
- 1420 N Mound Street
Nacogdoches, TX
Pull under the porte-cochère to drop off, then park in the side lot beneath the magnolias. - (936) 555-0172
- Text us
- hello@camelliahouse.example
- Camellia House Assisted Living
Tour & office hours
- Tours, Mon – Sat9a – 5p
- Sunday tours1p – 4p
- Office, Mon – Fri8a – 5p
- Families visitAny time
Sunday dinner is at one. Families are welcome with a day's notice.
Save the next dance for us.
Call or text Antoinette to arrange a visit. There is always a place at the table for a guest.