IL Presbyterian Home Communities

IL Presbyterian Home Communities IPH Communities is celebrating our 70th year of faith and community! We have provided compassionate care to seniors of all faiths since 1954.

Learn more about our assistive and independent living community!

Join us in wishing Rosita a happy birthday filled with smiles and joy! 🎁😊
01/20/2026

Join us in wishing Rosita a happy birthday filled with smiles and joy! 🎁😊

Join us in wishing Lynn & Dixie a happy birthday! We're so glad to celebrate this special day with you both! 🎈🎂
01/19/2026

Join us in wishing Lynn & Dixie a happy birthday! We're so glad to celebrate this special day with you both! 🎈🎂

✨Hats off to our residents 🧢✨We celebrated National Hat Day by creating personalized hats. The creativity was incredible...
01/15/2026

✨Hats off to our residents 🧢✨We celebrated National Hat Day by creating personalized hats. The creativity was incredible. Every hat was as unique as the person who made it! 💙

Join us in wishing Mary a very happy birthday - your presence brightens our community! 🎂🎈
01/13/2026

Join us in wishing Mary a very happy birthday - your presence brightens our community! 🎂🎈

01/12/2026

⚡ National Static Electricity Day Fun⚡
Friday our residents got hands-on with science and had a shockingly good time! We made static electricity paper dancers using balloons, separated salt from pepper with static power, and even made two plates hover using static electricity. Learning, laughter, and a little magic all rolled into one electrifying day!

❄️🍲IPH Winter Wonderland Soup Cook-Off! 🍲❄️Join us during our Snowball Gala for a cozy Soup Cook-Off! ✨ Friends & family...
01/09/2026

❄️🍲IPH Winter Wonderland Soup Cook-Off! 🍲❄️
Join us during our Snowball Gala for a cozy Soup Cook-Off!
✨ Friends & family are welcome to sign up with a resident
📝 Sign-up deadline: January 19th
We can’t wait to taste all the love simmering in your pots💙

Join us in wishing Maxine a birthday as wonderful as they are! 🎂
01/08/2026

Join us in wishing Maxine a birthday as wonderful as they are! 🎂

Join us in wishing sweet Mary Lou a happy birthday! We are honored to celebrate you. 🎂🎁
12/27/2025

Join us in wishing sweet Mary Lou a happy birthday! We are honored to celebrate you. 🎂🎁

As we wrap up the Christmas season, we’re so thankful for moments like these ❤️Smiles, laughter, and togetherness are wh...
12/26/2025

As we wrap up the Christmas season, we’re so thankful for moments like these ❤️
Smiles, laughter, and togetherness are what the holidays at IPH are all about ☃️

🎄What a December to remember at IPH! 🎄From toe-tapping tunes by talented barbershop quartets to sweet sounds from childr...
12/24/2025

🎄What a December to remember at IPH! 🎄

From toe-tapping tunes by talented barbershop quartets to sweet sounds from children caroling and a beautiful harp ensemble, our halls were filled with music all month long. 🎶

Our friends at KDO hosted a magical Christmas cookie bingo party and we wrapped it all up with a joyful Resident Christmas Party — complete with a surprise visit from Santa 🎅🏼, plenty of smiles, laughter, and holiday spirit! 🎄❤️

Thank you to everyone who helped make this season so special for our residents!

Join us in wishing a VERY Happy Birthday to a VERY special person in our IPH Family, Bobbie! We hope your day is filled ...
12/17/2025

Join us in wishing a VERY Happy Birthday to a VERY special person in our IPH Family, Bobbie! We hope your day is filled with joy & happiness!

We’re broadcasting live from our front parlor with Sam Madonia and Greg. Feel free to join in by listening to WMAY.
12/15/2025

We’re broadcasting live from our front parlor with Sam Madonia and Greg. Feel free to join in by listening to WMAY.

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2005 West Lawrence
Springfield, IL
62704

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Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 8pm
Sunday 8am - 8pm

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Founded in Faith, Focused on Community

The Palmer Sanatorium was vacant in 1954, when the longtime pastor of First Presbyterian Church, the Rev. Richard Paul Graebel, initiated a move to buy the facility as the site for a planned Illinois Presbyterian Home.

As Edyth Anderson recounted in the April 2003 edition of Historico, Graebel announced on a Sunday morning that he had a key to the sanatorium, and anyone interested in seeing it should meet him there after church.

"Only a Springfield lawyer plus my mother and father and I joined Dr. Graebel to tour the buildings," Anderson said. "The atmosphere was almost ghostly, with dusty stacks of bed linen - even a dental office. However, Dr. Graebel recognized that the property had possibilities for use as a retirement home. He envisioned a home in which he would be pleased to have his mother live."

Following a fundraising drive, the church bought the old sanatorium complex, which took in 26 acres, for $140,000. The first residents moved in on March 5, 1956. The facility (after extensive changes over the years) is now the Fair Hills Residence of the Illinois Presbyterian Home.*