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Dean Building, Menninger West Campus, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1969
This building was constructed as a home for the elderly by the Security Benefit Association. Building "C" was opened July 13, 1925. The S.B.A. property was purchased by the Menninger Foundation, and in 1965 it was remodeled for use by the Department of Preventive Psychiatry and as a Seminar Center. At the celebration of Topeka Day, May 23, 1969, the building was named in honor of W. Laird Dean, a long-time member of the Board of Trustees and Treasurer of The Menninger Foundation from 1944-1963. Later the Dean Building was used as a canteen and for music therapy. The piano for the music therapy room was hoisted through the window.
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Kansas Film Commission site photographs, subject military academies - nursing homes
Creator: Kansas Film Commission
Date: 1980s-2000s
These are panoramic photographs of locations in Kansas created by the Kansas Film Commission to promote scenes to film companies. The panoramics were created by taking individual photos and taping them together. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject and then location. The subjects included in this part of the collection are military academies, mining areas, museums, and nursing homes.
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Neiswanger Building, Menninger Clinic, West Campus, Topeka, Kansas
This photograph shows the Neiswanger Building which housed the Topeka Psychoanalytic Institute and other offices during the time of the Menninger Clinic. The Security Benefit Life Insurance Company built it as a home for the elderly in 1921. It looked out over the city of Topeka from the top of Martin's Hill.
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Security Benefit Association grounds, Topeka, Kansas
Date: Between 1940s and 1950s
This aerial view shows the Security Benefit Association grounds in Topeka, Kansas. The facility was located west of Sixth Avenue in Topeka, Kansas, and was owned and operated by the fraternal organization. The 400-acre grounds consisted of a hospital, retirement home, children's home, school house and cemetery. In the 1950s, the cooperative farm was abandoned when the company ceased to be a fraternal organization and became primarily a life insurance company known as Security Benefit Life. The land was eventually sold to the Menninger Foundation. Today, only a few structures are remaining.
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Some buildings of the Security Benefit Association, Topeka, Kansas
Date: 1930
This black and white photograph shows most of the buildings of the Security Benefit Association complex. The S.B.A. was, initially, a fraternal organization that helped fund health care. Members paid a nickel a month for free care at a association hospital. That fee also covered an orphanage for their children, if the member died, and an old folks home. It was all located as what the association claimed was a model facility in Topeka, Kansas. See Kansas Memory items 224538 and 224543 for advertising publications. Many of the buildings were remodeled when The Menninger Foundation purchased the property and built new structures for the Menninger Clinic. Some buildings are still in existence today, in 2011.
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