Asbury Towers Retirement Community, Inc. (Greencastle, Putnam County, Indiana) records

The founders of Asbury Towers, which opened in 1964, were three prominent local sisters inspired by the death of a dear friend used to gentility and refinement, who had needed adequate home care while not ready for hospitalization. Their dream was a pleasant retirement home where older men and women could enjoy interesting lives in their twilight years - independent apartments and condos with security, minimal worry, freedom from property maintenance, and good meals and health care as needed.

Associated with the Indiana United Methodist Church and adjusting to changing lifestyles in the past nearly fifty years by adapting and expanding as resources permitted, Asbury Towers remains small in comparison with for-profit retirement homes in nearby cities. It is not a nursing home, it is not an assisted care facility, it is not a hospital, it is not a day care center for older folks. Rather it is primarily a home for independent individuals and couples seeking to spend the best years of retirement with comfort, stimulation, new and old friends, and creative activity in a middle sized vivacious Hoosier college town.