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Nutrition & Dining The meals at Charlton Manor Rest Home are cooked on site with an emphasis on fresh ingredients, variety, and the comfort and joy of our residents. We are committed to promote healthy eating and take care of all our resident's special needs. Meals are served in the comfortable, elegant dining room. Meal times is the chance for our residents to socialize with their friends while enjoying our wonderful food options. Our daily menu includes homemade comfort foods, such as Meatloaf, Shepherd's Pie, Breads, Pasta & Meat , Homemade Soups, Fresh Fruit Cups, and a variety of delicious deserts. Saturdays: Residents enjoy their hotdog & beans with homemade brown bread -- a New England Cl ic that they will not let us change. Scroll down to see one of the Holiday menus.

In The Media | Charlton Manor Rest Home

Manor Showcases Past and Future ‘THIS HAS BEEN MY P ION MY WHOLE LIFE’ BY GUS STEEVES VILLAGER STAFF WRITER CHARLTON - Stuck in a hard-to-find corner of town, Charlton Manor celebrated 50 years as a senior rest home last week, with owner Michael Turpin showcasing his ongoing project to modernize it with antiques. But those changes are just one stage in the place’s history, which stretches back another century as the town Poor and is looking forward to a big expansion project potentially next year. “This has been my p ion my whole life,” Turpin said. “Since I was a little boy, I wanted to own and operate one because I saw my mother taking care of my grandmother [at home].” He obtained the place about two years ago, noting, “I knew when I drove in, I was going to buy it.” He said he immediately had a picture of what he could do with it — one that was a far cry from the vintage 1970s paneling, furniture and carpets that he saw. Since then, the place has been going “back to the future,” as rooms get converted to a more antique-laden early 20th-century feel. At least one room, which he said used to be a medical ward and will be renovated into a married couple’s suite, still looks like the1970s at the moment, though. “It’s been pretty rough sometimes, with a lot of hammering, but we just take it in stride,” said Connie Rutanen, a one-year resident who generally supports the changes. To her, the Manor looks “so much like the Public House. This would make a nice place for someone who buys and sells antiques. They could come, stay for a few nights….” Turpin noted he’d considered that kind of a “bed and breakfast” concept, but state law doesn’t allow rest homes to do that. What is going forward, though, is a plan to build 40-60 units of isted living and day care on the acreage surrounding the existing building. Turpin said he’s working with Cutler & ociates to do the architecture; the project is tentatively slated to go before the Planning Board later this year. A future phase that’s still just in his mind is to add several residential cabins. “It’s very expensive to build things today,” Turpin observed. “We really have to think of all the infrastructure,” especially since this area has no public water or sewer. If it happens, the new site’s day care will serve both s and children, since “the elderly respond to children so well,” Turpin said. While the residents are seeing numerous changes now, most aren’t old enough to recall the manor’s past life as the poor . Between its construction in 1860 and conversion to a rest home 50 years ago, the served “people of no means” from 10 nearby communities, with residents raising s and crops on 265 acres to partly pay for their support, he said. According to the Charlton Historical Society’s spring 2009 newsletter, the concept of towns providing care for the indigent goes back at least to Colonial days, but those needing it weren’t always welcome. In 1637, the colonial government ordered towns to essentially throw people out if they stayed more than three weeks, later changing it so that those who hadn’t been “warned” to leave became legal residents after three months. Local historian Cindy Cooper wrote that Worcester County records include more than 50 such warnings for Charlton between 1755 and 1783. For a long time, she wrote, people were required to tell the selectmen whenever they got a new tenant or they’d become financially responsible if the person “became destitute.” Most of those the town had charge of “were boarded out, with the host family being reimbursed for expenses.” Sometimes, such reimbursements came from other communities. Cooper notes that five of the towns, including Charlton, formally created an Almshouse ociation to maintain the in 1904, and others joined later. The group purchased the property in 1925. In the 1960s, though, the Iandoli family (owners of the former supermarket chain) bought part of the site and converted it to a rest home. Turpin noted one of the current residents has lived there for 43 of those years, having come because of illness but choosing to stay thereafter. Today, the ages range from about 50 to “almost 100 years old.” “For a lot of people, their first choice is to stay at home,” he observed. “So we’re looking to provide a comfortable environment that is home-like, not institutional.” Estelle Ballard said she came here about two years ago “because my house got flooded.” She said she still hopes to return home (on Woodstock Road, Southbridge), “but I don’t know if I will.” Ballard and Rutanen, who are sisters, recalled growing up in Charlton on a Carpenter Hill Road .Ballard said their father “used to peddle milk house to house” until 1936, while Rutanen recalled using big saws to cut ice blocks out of the lake for refrigeration during the warm months. She also remembered watching the boys play baseball while they’d be “selling tonic” to the players and fans. As s, the two women helped their father run several apartment buildings in Southbridge, where Ballard served as one of Southbridge’s essors until 1991. About the same time, their sister Claire Boyer retired as Town Clerk. Article originally published on Oct.19, 2012 in Charlton Villager Vol. IV No.42

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