Chapter 01
1956: wheat seed and a promise
Seven Newton-area congregations bought eighty acres of prairie north of town and promised their parents they would grow old among the people they knew.
Our story
Our story
Wheat seed, a promise and seventy years of neighbors.
Our story
Seventy years on the hill
Chapter 02
1960: the first cottages
Sixteen cottages and a dining hall opened. Residents planted the orchard the first spring; three of those apple trees still bear.
Chapter 03
1978: the Health Center
Skilled nursing came to the hill so no resident would have to move away for care. Orchard House assisted living followed in 1994.
Chapter 04
2011: Wheatfield House
Memory care opened in a house designed to feel like a farmhouse kitchen, with bread in the oven most mornings.
- 1956founded by Newton-area congregations
- 80acres of prairie, orchard and trail
- 4levels of care, one campus
- 1,200quilts made and given away by residents
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Sample: Best Senior Living, Regional Readers' Poll
- Sample: Not-for-Profit Excellence Award
- Sample: Top Workplace
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