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 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.

We’re live on the morning show with Sam Madonia! Feel free to listen on WMAY.
12/15/2025

We’re live on the morning show with Sam Madonia! Feel free to listen on WMAY.

Today we wish a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Cheryl! Wishing you many blessings for the year ahead!
12/13/2025

Today we wish a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Cheryl! Wishing you many blessings for the year ahead!

❄️ Due to the incoming snow and extreme cold, our Christmas Open House is cancelled for this Sunday. Your safety comes f...
12/12/2025

❄️ Due to the incoming snow and extreme cold, our Christmas Open House is cancelled for this Sunday. Your safety comes first—please stay warm and enjoy a cozy winter day. 🎄❤️

We had the honor of welcoming author David E. Grogan to IPHC on Friday for a very special event. His newest book highlig...
12/08/2025

We had the honor of welcoming author David E. Grogan to IPHC on Friday for a very special event. His newest book highlights powerful life lessons from military heroes, one of those stories comes from our very own Gene Walker, who was able to do book signing for all of us fans! What a beautiful moment to see Gene recognized for his service and wisdom 💙

We would like to give a huge thank you to David Grogan for not only coming to share his new book with us – but for making sure the stories of these American heroes can live on through generations ⭐

Learning To Live From Those Willing To Die
is available on Amazon:
https://a.co/d/btzWPha

Ho Ho Hope You Can Join Us For Our Christmas Open House! 🎅🏼We’re Jinglin’ And Minglin’ With:🎶 Live Entertainment 🎄 Show-...
12/05/2025

Ho Ho Hope You Can Join Us For Our Christmas Open House! 🎅🏼
We’re Jinglin’ And Minglin’ With:
🎶 Live Entertainment
🎄 Show-Stopping Trees
❄️ Handmade Card Sales
🍪 Gingerbread Man Decorating with a Resident

Everyone Is Invited To Join The Fun — It’s Going To Be Merry & Bright! ✨

Join us in wishing a very Happy Birthday to Grace. Her soft and kind spirit brightens all of our days!
11/29/2025

Join us in wishing a very Happy Birthday to Grace. Her soft and kind spirit brightens all of our days!

We have so much to be thankful for.Our wonderful residents.Our compassionate staff. Our generous donors.Thank you for bl...
11/27/2025

We have so much to be thankful for.
Our wonderful residents.
Our compassionate staff.
Our generous donors.

Thank you for blessing our lives and our community. Wishing all a Thanksgiving filled with love, gratitude, and blessings!

Today we wish sweet Donna a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
11/26/2025

Today we wish sweet Donna a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

✨IPHC Seniors: Still Shining, Still Smiling, Still Inspiring ✨
11/25/2025

✨IPHC Seniors: Still Shining, Still Smiling, Still Inspiring ✨

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2005 West Lawrence
Springfield, IL
62704

Opening Hours

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

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+12175465622

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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.*