A Window on the Past – South Portland’s Anthoine Street almshouse evolved into nursing home
By Kathryn Onos DiPhilippo
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This week, we continue the story of the Anthoine Street property that has long been the site of a nursing home, now Pinnacle Health and Rehab. Last week, we talked about Barnum’s Bathing Rooms that started on the site of the mineral springs there. Isaac Barnum had operated a business that offered the chance to bathe in and/or drink the “medicinal waters.”
The former almshouse (or, City Home) on Anthoine Street, in 1977, after it had become part of the South Portland Nursing Home. The first section of the current-day, one-story building had already been constructed and was connected to the back of this building.