What is the history of the Cherry Manor Health Care Center?
Located at 1330 Cherry, the building was formally the Bachelors Inn and the Southwest Hospital. The later has a detailed history in Jonathan Fairbanks and Clyde Tuck’s “Past and Present of Greene County, Missouri”. The Local History and Genealogy Department maintains an information file on the Cherry Manor Health Care Center. In addition, the Ozarks News and Historical Index contains a number of articles about the Cherry Manor Health Care Center and the Southwest Hospital. SOUTHWEST HOSPITAL The newest and one of the best hospitals in Springfield and the Ozark region, while not so extensive as some, is the Southwest Hospital, at 1010-14 Cherry Street, which has gained rapidly in prestige and importance since its establishment a year ago. Its growth has been beyond the expectations of founders. This has been due, no doubt, to the high-class work it has done from the first. It is not a private institution, as some at first was led to believe, but was intended as a general hospital for th
