Chapter 01
1911: a banker's house
Josiah Ladd built the house on Park Boulevard during the oil boom, with brick from a kiln on the Verdigris and a parlor big enough for the church choir. His daughter Cora lived in it for sixty years.
Our story
Our story
One will, one house, and seventy-five years of keeping a promise.
Our story
Seventy-five years on Park Boulevard
Chapter 02
1949: Cora's one-page will
Cora never married. She left the house to a board of trustees with one instruction: make it a home for older people of Montgomery County who could no longer live alone, and keep the parlor a parlor. Twelve women moved in that fall.
Chapter 03
1978: the elevator and the nurse
The trustees put an elevator where the back stairs had been and hired the house's first nurse. The tea service, and the cat in the parlor, carried on.
Chapter 04
2004: the garden wing
Thirty apartments were added along the garden in brick that matches the old house, with wide halls, walk-in showers and doors that open onto the rose beds Cora planted.
Chapter 05
Today: still a house
Ladd Manor is licensed assisted living for forty-four residents, run by a nonprofit board that still meets in the parlor. The kettle goes on at a quarter to four.
- 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
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
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.