Five ladies holding various baking dishes, such as cake and donuts

Cornwall Manor Society Celebrates 70 Years

Cornwall Manor Society Celebrates 70 Years

July 10, 2020

In the spring of 1950, the Golden Cross Society (known today as the Cornwall Manor Society) began six months after the establishment of The Methodist […]

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Five ladies holding various baking dishes, such as cake and donuts

Happy 70th Birthday, Cornwall Manor!

October 01, 2019

Cornwall Manor is celebrating its 70th anniversary year. Our continuing care retirement community opened its doors to the first residents on October 15, 1949, as […]

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Cupcakes with numbered candles

The Margaret Buckingham Story

February 15, 2019

Cornwall Manor Retirement Community is celebrating our 70th anniversary in 2019. A series of history articles will be posted to the Manor Moments blog to […]

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Margaret Buckingham

Cornwall Manor’s Buckingham Mansion: An Elegant Estate Spanning 258 Years of Lebanon County History

January 15, 2019

Cornwall Manor Retirement Community is celebrating our 70th anniversary in 2019. A series of history articles will be posted to the Manor Moments blog to […]

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Outside of Cornwall Manor's Buckingham Mansion

A Gingerbread Replica of the Buckingham Mansion

January 02, 2018

Chef Brian Peffley, Pastry Arts Instructor at the Lebanon County Career and Technology Center (LCCTC), created a three-story gingerbread house replicating Cornwall Manor’s Buckingham Mansion. […]

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Buckingham Mansion

Resident Born in Japanese Internment Camp

June 13, 2017

Cornwall Manor resident Sally Renda wasn’t alive when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. However, the war that followed this catastrophic event […]

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Resident Sally Renda group photo

The Bells are Ringing at Cornwall Manor

February 07, 2017

Every morning at 9:00 AM, the sounds of the electronic carillon can be heard from Zerr Chapel on the Buckingham Campus. It announces the time […]

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Zerr Chapel on the Buckingham Campus

Heirlooms: Cornwall Manor’s Greenhouses

October 10, 2016

Doug and Kathy Powell relocated from Tennessee to Cornwall Manor in June 2014. They chose Cornwall Manor for the ambience. “The campus is beautiful. It […]

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A view of the original greenhouse at Cornwall Manor in the late 19th century.