The Pritchett house
Built in 1912 for a cotton merchant, the three-story brick house on Grand Avenue had been a boarding house, a law office and, for ten years, empty.
Our story
How we got here
The people, the place and the promise behind every day of care.
Our story
The Grayson House, from the beginning
A professor and a nurse
Charles taught history at the college; Naomi nursed at the hospital. They had cared for both of their mothers and knew exactly what they wanted for their own old age.
A year behind the plaster
In 2003 they added an elevator, sprinklers, sixteen private baths and wide doorways, and kept the pine floors, the staircase and the porch.
Opening day
The first residents moved in during the spring of 2004. One of them was Charles's old department chair, who still corrected his grammar.
The college connection
Students began visiting to read aloud and practice recitals. Twenty years later the volunteer list has more than a hundred names.
Still sixteen
We have been asked to expand. We have stayed at sixteen, so every caregiver knows every resident and the parlor always has a free chair.
- 16private suites with baths
- 1912the year the house was built
- 2004the year the Whitfields opened it
- 12years, our caregivers' average tenure
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Grayson County Readers' Choice · Best Senior Residence (sample)
- Sherman Preservation League · Restoration Award (sample)
- Family survey · 98% would recommend (sample)
- Licensed assisted living · Texas HHSC
Come sit on the porch.
Tours take about an hour and end with coffee on the wraparound porch. Call Naomi, or pick a time below.