It was built about 1966 on a parcel of the Archibald Tyson Estate, other grounds of which a short time later became the main campus of the Saint James School. In its heyday Tyson Manor was Montgomery’s premier nursing home, the society place to convalesce. In 1976 my own mother, who lived 120 miles away, spent time here to recover from a broken hip. During the 1970s and ’80s, TM patients could sit on one of the porches you see and watch the shenanigans of the Saint James students, whose small campus was directly across the street. By 2000 or so, the nursing facility had become Tyson Manor Rehab, as it struggled to compete in a world dominated by chains. Today it is the “Golden Living Center”, way down from where it started. Tyson Manor was built by five Montgomery investors (few nursing home chains back then), a group that included two doctors and the administrator of Jackson Hospital. They had a pretty good setup, I’d say.

-Charles Humphries