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Article: Mansion home to friendly faces; Mount Pleasant Home offers a respite from loneliness for seniors
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2004
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Mount Pleasant Home has welcomed residents of all ages during its
130 years. Where orphans once played cards, seniors now deal hands of
euchre.
Organized as the Iowa Home for the Friendless in 1874, the
nonprofit agency sheltered orphans, abandoned children and "women in
distress" for nearly 90 years. By 1960, adoption laws changed and the
children moved to other living arrangements.
Mount Pleasant's mission was changed to offer room, board and all
the amenities of home to seniors - first to women only, then in 1986
to men as well.
Since 1877, Mount Pleasant Home has operated in a Victorian-era
mansion on five scenic, tree-lined acres west of Loras College in
Dubuque. During the decades, ...