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                                                            Our History

 

 

    Groundbreaking for Holy Spirit Retirement Home took

place Tuesday, September 24, 1968, on the beautiful

hills overlooking Sioux City, Iowa.

    Thirteen months later, in October 1969, the first residents

began moving in to their new home.

    What was originally a small nursing home, Holy Spirit has

grown into a large complex, featuring the nursing home,

assisted living apartments, assisted living Alzheimer Center,

and senior independent apartments, all on one complex.

    Not far away, Holy Spirit partners with The Evergreen

Terrace Apartments Complex, providing income-based

housing for seniors.

        Located at 25th & West Streets, the original cost of the first

building was $604,000.

  Although sponsored by the Catholic Diocese of Sioux City, Holy Spirit serves people

of all faiths from throughout the region, while retaining it's religious origins in the Catholic Faith.

 

 

    On May 5th, 1969, the "Laying of the Cornerstone" Service, pictured above, took

place.  Sister Elizabeth Pfeiffer, right, Superior of the local Holy Spirit Community,

displays a parchment scroll that would be placed in a sealed cylinder that would

be encased in the cornerstone.  In addition to the parchment, other objects included

a brief history of the community,  medals, a 1968 Kennedy half-dollar, representing

the year construction began, a German Mark, dated 1950, representing the year the

community was founded in Germany, and a copy of the May issue of the community

publication, VENI..

    Also pictured is Bishop Joseph M. Mueller, D.D., center, and Msgr. L.J. Hoffman, left,

chancellor.

    Present for the ceremonies were Eugene Olson, architect representing

William Beuttler Architect and Associates, and Robert McCline, representing

Chris Hansen Construction Co. Inc.

 

    The parchment scroll sealed in the cornerstone reads....

 

                "In the year of our Lord 1969, under the reign of our sovereign Pontiff

            Pope Paul VI, when his Excellency the Most Reverend Joseph M

            Mueller was Bishop of Sioux City - in the year of his golden jubilee -

            and his Excellency the Most Reverend Frank H. Greteman was Auxiliary

            Bishop of Sioux City and Rector of the Holy Spirit Community; when

            Richard M. Nixon was the 37th President of the United States of America,

            Robert D. Ray Governor of Iowa and Earle E. Grueskin, Mayor of

            Sioux City, on the 5th day of May the corner stone of this building was

            blessed and laid in honor of Holy Spirit."

 

 

 

                                         

 

Facility Highlights

1969    In October of that year, residents began moving in.

1984    Sioux City Diocese assumes ownership

1988    Twenty-four apartments are built

1988    Chapel added to facility

1996    Certification of Medicare Unit

1996    Holy Spirit sponsors HUD project, establishing 55-units of

           income-based housing at Evergreen Terrace

1998    Sixteen Assisted Living units are added

1999    Eleven Assisted Living units for people with memory impairments are added.