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Eliza Bryant Village company history timeline

1896

The efforts of these dedicated women were fruitful and on September 1, 1896 a home was incorporated – The Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People – at 284 Giddings Avenue.

1897

The Lady Board of Managers purchased a building at 284 Giddings (East 71st) Street and the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People opened there on August 11, 1897.

1898

Another one of the home’s first residents was Susan Maria Harris of Schenectady, New York, who moved there on November 18, 1898.

1902

Following the completion of the renovations and upgrades, the new Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People reopened its doors in 1902.

1914

The home moved again in March 1914 to a house at 4807 Cedar Road, purchased for $9,000, its location for fifty-three years.

1915

In 1915 home joined the Cleveland Welfare Federation, which alleviated some of the home’s financial problems.

In 1915 the home moved from its Osborne Street location to a large new, $9,000, red-brick house at 4807 Cedar Avenue.

1957

By 1957 the Home for Aged Colored People accepted both men and women but was rarely filled to its capacity of sixteen residents.

1960

Assisted by the Welfare Federation, it reorganized and was renamed the Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged in April 1960.

In 1960 the home's operators decided to change its name to the Eliza Bryant Home to honor one of their founders.

1967

In 1967, the Dorcas Society offered its building located at 1380 Addison Road to the Eliza Bryant Home for the Aged.

1968

In 1968 the Dorcas Society donated its property to the Bryant Home, and the heavily endowed A. M. MCGREGOR HOME (which did not admit AFRICAN AMERICANS) gave the Bryant Home $1.5 million.

1984

Renamed the Eliza Bryant Center, the home announced an ambitious expansion in April 1984.

1985

In 1985 the home changed its name again, becoming Eliza Bryant Center.

1989

Since 1989 the center has sponsored an adult day care program in cooperation with the EVA L. AND JOSEPH M. BRUENING FOUNDATION and the WESTERN RESERVE AREA AGENCY ON AGING, and expanded its senior transportation services.

1999

The Inez Myers Senior Outreach Center opened in 1999, expanding the Village by 17,000 square feet.

Also in 1999, a new senior housing complex with 59 one-bedroom units was built, The Eliza Bryant Village Manor.

2003

In 2003, Eliza Bryant Village constructed additional 44 one-bedroom garden-style housing units, the Garden Estates, with funding from The Department of Housing and Development (HUD) and expanded the nursing home from 100 to 175 beds after acquiring the former Madonna Hall Nursing Home.

2006

In 2006, the Eliza Bryant Village was honored by AOPHA, the Advocate of Not-For-Profit Services For Older Ohioans, with the Excellence in Service (Best Practice) for Home- and Community-based Services Award.

2009

In 2009, Harvey Shankman served as the executive director of the Eliza Bryant Village and Brenda York as the president of the board of trustees.

The Village’s Skilled Nursing Care and Therapy Renovation project completed in 2009 included a glass enclosed lounge for family socialization and recreation activities, new central bathing rooms, enhanced therapy suites and new activity lounges.

2015

In collaboration with the Centers for Dialysis Care (CDC), Eliza Bryant Village constructed a new dialysis center on-site that opened in 2015.

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