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Jones Manor On-The-Sound is located on Long Island's prestigious North Shore over-looking Long Island Sound, on the site of the Carriage House on the former Clarkson Estate, 59 Bayville Ave, Bayville, New York. We are a non-profit and non-denominational residential home operated by the Jones Fund, which has been in existence since 1836. Jones Manor On-The-Sound is A-rated by the New York State Department of Social Services. |
| We welcome prospective residents to view our facilities. Our purpose is to provide a warm and friendly family environment for adults who are unable to live independently. With comfortable price and semi-private rooms, we are able to accommodate 46 residents in a comparatively small home that caters to the individual. |
| Our residents enjoy a home-like setting with warm friendships, scheduled activates, and full-time supervision by a qualified and congenial staff. Recognized that an adjustment to Group Living is of vital concern to people, our philosophy is to ensure their privacy, independence, individuality and to offer the kind of environment that will make our residents look forward to the next day and the future. |
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Surrounded by a beautiful residential community, Jones Manor is conveniently located across the street from a shopping center and it nestled in a lovely wooded area that leads down to a beach on Long Island Sound. Places of worship are readily accessible. |
| Did you know the unique service made possible for the residents of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay in the 1836 will of Samuel Jones? |
| The Trustees of the Jones Fund want the community leaders to know how the story of the Jones Manor on the Sound and to come and see how (for over 166 years) it has answered a constant problem in our community |
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| The will of Samuel Jones directed the Townships of North Hempstead and Oyster Bay to appoint five trustees to oversee the sum of $30,000 "to remain a permanent fund, from the interest of which support shall be afforded to the poor of said towns." This helps fun a hospitable adult home (now located in Bayville) for 46 residents, regardless of race, color or creed. |
| For the first 78 years the Trustees maintained a residential farm for homeless in Brookville. In 1914 the facility moved to a new building on 25 acres of property purchased by the fund on West John Street in Hicksville. Form many years the property was farmed by the residents to sustain the facility. Condemnation proceedings for roads, etc., and sale for a portion of the property to create income producing investments reduced the property to 13 acres in the late 1970s. |
| For a long time, the operation was funded by investment of the fund, social security payments from the residents and a supplement provided by the Nassau County Department of Social Services (DSS). But in 1974 DSS no longer could provide the funding needed to make up the deficit between operating costs and income. Instead, the residents received Supplemental Security Incomes (SSI) which initially was well below the income which had been established by Nassau County, leaving the Trustees in a financial crisis. |
| In 1980, the 65-year-old Hicksville facility, in need of substantial improvements, was closed, the residents placed elsewhere and the property sold. With the proceeds of the sale, which were immediately invested, the Trustees were able to purchase the Carriage House, on the grounds of the former Clarkson estate, for the present lovely home overlooking the Long Island Sound in Bayville. |
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The trustees, through their Executive Director and staff, are charged with the responsibility of providing a home, with all that implies, including mails and otherwise caring for 46 mostly frail and elderly residents, whose average is 80. Some of the residents are private but the vast majority are needy and depend almost exclusively on the care provided for them at this gracious home.
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