Longview Assisted Living Main history

1890 Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church is formed.

1904 Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church takes in its first child.

1912 A generous bequest from a supporter named Elizabeth Sheldon enables the Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church to purchase a 66-acre farm in Williamsville, New York, and build the facilities needed to house the growing number of orphaned children placed in care.

1917 The Protestant Home for Unprotected Children is formed.

Eventually, in 1954, Buckner opened its first official retirement community, the Mary E. Trew Home in Dallas, located less than a mile from the original children’s home.

In 1955, Buckner expanded its senior living ministry to Houston with the opening of Buckner Baptist Haven.

1964 Lynde School is built on the Williamsville, New York, Campus.

In 1966, the Mary E. Trew Home in Dallas added the Buckner Ryburn Nursing Center and became known officially as Buckner Retirement Village.

1967 Buffalo Deaconess Home of the Methodist Episcopal Church is renamed Gateway (Methodist Home for Children). Simultaneously, the Protestant Home for Unprotected Children opens Camp Cummings, a summer camp, for its residents and a group home for young men named Hughson House.

1970 added Buckner Villas in Austin to the Buckner family and further solidified Buckner as a leading provider of nonprofit senior living in Texas.

1971 The Protestant Home for Unprotected Children opens its Niagara Day Care Center.

1975 The Protestant Home for Unprotected Children is renamed Longview Niagara.

1979 Longview-Niagara begins serving children at the St John’s North and South Agency Operated Boarding Homes.

1982 Gateway’s Lynde School is expanded to provide comprehensive elementary and secondary education.

1987 Gateway begins offering Day Treatment at its Lynde School for students with educational, as well as emotional, social and behavioral challenges.

1990 Gateway opens a Therapeutic Preschool and begins offering adoption services for children in care.

1991 Gateway launches its Supervised Independent Living Program, or SILP, for teens and young adults, too old for foster care and too young to care for themselves.

1994 Gateway begins offering Preventive Respite services for children and families in need of temporary care and assistance.

Buckner Westminster Place in Longview followed in 1996, opened originally as just an independent living community.

Our new and bigger facility, known as Longview, an Ithacare Community, opened its doors in November, 1998.

1999 Gateway Longview’s Community Services department moves from the Ellicott Square Building in downtown Buffalo, New York, into the Gateway Longview facility at 605 Niagara Street to consolidate programming.

2003 Gateway Longview adds Tradition Preventive Respite services to its Preventive Services programs.

2005 Gateway Longview launches its Wrap Around program, with the addition of the Care Coordination program.

2007 Gateway Longview opens the Family Resource Center at 347 East Ferry Street in Buffalo, New York.

In 2010, Buckner affiliated with Baptist Memorial Ministries, bringing Baptist Retirement Community in San Angelo, Texas into the Buckner family.

2012 Gateway Longview opens a new Behavioral Health Clinic to serve children and families in the community.

That community would be a staple of nonprofit senior living and care for Dallas-area seniors for more than 50 years until Buckner Retirement closed the community in 2016 to focus on growth initiatives and accommodate the shifting Dallas landscape.

Ann spent almost five years with Sentio Investments, advisor to Sentio Healthcare Properties, Inc., a public, non-traded REIT that merged with a private real estate investor in August 2017.

Located just 10 miles from the original Buckner Orphans Home, Ventana opened in 2019 and set Buckner apart as a leading provider of senior living in Dallas once again.