Chapter 01
A hospice nurse's question
After twenty-five years at bedsides across Hays and Travis counties, Margaret Ellery kept asking the same thing: why did so many people spend their last years somewhere that did not feel like theirs?
Our story
How we got here
The people, the place and the promise behind every day of care.
Our story
How Juniper House came to be
Chapter 02
The stone house above the river
In 2009 she found a 1940s limestone ranch house on three acres of live oak above the Blanco. It had a stone fireplace, a deep porch and a garden gone wild. She saw twelve suites in it.
Chapter 03
Roses first
Before the first resident moved in, Margaret planted forty rose bushes. Residents have tended them ever since. The oldest, a climbing Cecile Brunner, now covers the arbor by the porch.
Chapter 04
A table for everyone
The farm table in the dining room was built by a local carpenter from a fallen pecan. It seats sixteen, so residents and visiting family can always eat together.
- 12private suites, each with a bath
- 2010the year Juniper House opened
- 3acres of live oak and garden
- 4:1residents to caregivers by day
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Hays County Readers' Choice · Best Senior Residence (sample)
- Wimberley Chamber · Small Business Award (sample)
- Family survey · 99% would recommend (sample)
- Licensed assisted living · Texas HHSC
Come for tea in the rose garden.
Margaret gives every tour herself, usually with a pot of tea on the porch afterward. Choose a time or call.