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GENERAL GERMAN AGED PEOPLE'S HOME OF BALTIMORE
(The Greisenheim)
FOUNDED:
8 June 1881
PURPOSE:
To establish and maintain a home where the elderly can spend the latter years of their life in comfort and security.
OFFICERS:
| President |
Daniel Judge |
| President Emeritus |
C. Edward Hoerichs |
| Vice President |
Frank G. Kuehn, M.D. |
| Treasurer |
Charles F. Stein, III |
| Secretary |
John H. Ditto, Jr. |
| Executive Director |
Sal J. Molite, Jr. |
In April of 1881, a group of Baltimoreans of German ancestry gathered in Mechanics Hall at 152 W. Fayette Street to consider the establishment of a home in which aged Germans could spend the declining years of their life. Such an idea met with a favorable response. On 8 June 1881, a Board of Directors filed a Certificate of Incorporation creating the ALLGEMEINES DEUTSCHES GREISENHEIM von BALTIMORE. In April 1882 the Corporation raised sufficient funds to rent and to furnish a building on the northwest corner of Lombard and Penn Streets to serve as the first location of the "Greisenheim".
The number of applicants soon exceeded the capacity of this rented building and a new and permanent facility was planned at the intersection of Baltimore and Payson Streets.
This new "Greisenheim" building was dedicated in May of 1885. For over fifty years this excellent facility served its design purpose; however, when modernization and enlargement became necessary, the Board of Directors began to search for land on which to build a newer "Greisenheim". On 25 September 1935, ground was broken at 22 South Athol Avenue in Irvington and a fine new, fireproof building was dedicated on this site on 8 November 1935.
In 1980, the Silver Cross Home at 5124 Greenwich Street was merged into the GENERAL GERMAN AGED PEOPLE'S HOME, and thirty-two residents of the Silver Cross Home were moved into the "Greisenheim". This merger necessitated a number of improvements to be made in the building at Athol Avenue, which included the expansion of infirmary facilities.
In September, 1985 the Board of Directors officially opened what is now called "Edenwald", an 18 story high-rise in Towson, Maryland, that consists of 241 apartments, 47 domiciliary beds and 68 comprehensive care beds, and is "home" for four hundred residents. "Edenwald", an accredited, full service Continuing Care Retirement Community continues the rich tradition of caring that the "Greisenheim" has emphasized for over one hundred years!
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