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Help with bathing, dressing and grooming
On your schedule, not the shift's. Early risers and night owls both welcome.
Care level
Assisted living · Independence, Kansas · Est. 1949
The kettle has been on since 1949.
Forty-four apartments in a 1911 brick house and its garden wing, three blocks from Riverside Park, with caregivers awake all night and tea poured every afternoon at four.
A house with a long memory
Cora Ladd left her house to Montgomery County. We still keep it.
When Cora Ladd died in 1948, her will was one page long. The house on Park Boulevard was to become a home for older people of the county who could no longer live alone, and the parlor was to stay a parlor. Seventy-some years later it still is.
Today Ladd Manor is licensed assisted living with a nurse on site seven days a week, an elevator where the back stairs used to be and a garden wing built in 2004. What hasn't changed is the pace: meals at a set table, a porch with eight rocking chairs, and someone who notices if you skip breakfast.
— Claire Hanlon, Executive Director
- 1949the year Cora Ladd opened her door
- 44private apartments, house and garden wing
- 4 p.m.tea in the front parlor, every day
- 3blocks to Riverside Park
What sets us apart
What families come to us for
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Three meals in the dining room
Set tables, cloth napkins and a menu with two choices at every meal.
Included
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Tea at four
Tea, coffee and something from the oven in the front parlor. Visitors welcome.
DailyPhoto tour
The house, the garden and the people in it
We will not rush you. We will knock before we come in. We will learn how you take your coffee and remember it on the hard days too. And at four o'clock, whatever else is happening, there will be tea.
Rooms & suites
Apartments in the house and the garden wing
Every apartment is private, with its own bath and a door that locks. Bring your bed, your books and the chair you read in.
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Parlor floor suite
A big room in the 1911 house with tall windows, a private bath and the original oak trim.
- Original house
- Walk-in shower
- Park-side windows
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Garden wing one-bedroom
A separate bedroom, a sitting room with a gas fireplace and a door onto the garden path.
- Fireplace
- Kitchenette
- Couples welcome
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Garden wing studio
One bright room with space for a bed, a reading chair and a small table for two.
- Kitchenette
- Walk-in shower
- Garden view
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Companion suite
Two private bedrooms that share a bath, for sisters, old friends or a couple who sleep differently.
- Two bedrooms
- Shared bath
- Lower monthly rent
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Guest apartment
A furnished apartment for respite stays and trial months, with linens, a TV and a quilt on the bed.
- Fully furnished
- Weekly or monthly
- Respite stays
Sample family reviews
Letters from families
Mother took tea at four her whole life. The first afternoon she came here, someone handed her a cup in a saucer without asking. She cried, and then she asked for a second cup.
I live in Denver. Debra calls me after every doctor visit, even the boring ones. I have never once had to chase anybody for news.
My apartment is in the old house, on the second floor. I can see the park from my bed. I didn't expect to like it this much.
They asked what time Dad got up for the last forty years. Five-fifteen. Somebody brings his coffee at five-fifteen.
My wife and I moved in together after her stroke. She gets the help she needs and I still get to sit on the porch and complain about the Royals.
When Mom's money got tight, Marisol helped us with the KanCare waiver paperwork. We would have been lost without her.
Grandma was on the Neewollah float in a paper crown. She talked about it until Christmas.
We did a respite month while I had my shoulder done. Dad asked to stay. That was two years ago.
The food is real food. The rolls are made in the kitchen. My father, a baker for forty years, approves.
When Mom was dying, hospice came here and the staff kept coming in to hold her hand. She was never alone. I will not forget that.
Our team
The people who keep the house
Claire Hanlon
Executive Director
Debra Kincaid, RN
Director of Health Services
Dr. Monique Ellis, DO
Visiting Physician
Grace Mbeki, LPN
Wellness Nurse
Ratings & recognition · sample
- Readers' Choice · Best Assisted Living
- State Assisted Living Association · Member
- County Chamber · Business of the Year
- Historic Preservation Society · Landmark Plaque
- Family Satisfaction Survey · 97% would recommend
- Regional Health Network · Preferred Partner
- Local Newspaper · Readers' Pick
- Dementia-capable Staff Training · Completed
Now hiring
Ladd Manor runs on caregivers who stay for years. Come join them.
Visit
On Park Boulevard, under the elms
- 611 N Park Boulevard
Independence, KS
Park along the circle drive under the elms. The ramp entrance is on the garden side, to the left of the porch steps. - (620) 555-0183
- Text us
- tea@laddmanor.example
- Ladd Manor Assisted Living
Tour & office hours
- Tours, Mon – Sat9:30a – 5p
- Tea at four, every day4p – 5p
- Office, Mon – Fri8a – 5p
- Families visitAny time
Tea is open to visitors. Bring a grandchild; the cookie tin is in the butler's pantry.
There is a chair in the parlor with your name on it.
Call or text Claire to set a time. If you come at four, the tea is already poured.