Contributed by Penobscot Marine Museum
Description
In the late 19th and early 20th century this was the residence of C. E. Capen, vice president of the Eastport Savings Bank. By 1935 it was known as the Blanchard house.
Marion McPartland was a nurse and widow who arrived in Eastport about the time of the Passamaquoddy Dam Project in the 1930s. By May 1940 she had acquired the Blanchard house for a private hospital and named it the Eastport Memorial Hospital.
By 1944 she had rejoined the service in World War II and sold the hospital to the Eastport Hospital Corporation.
McPartland requested that the private corporation retain the word "memorial" in the name since she founded the hospital in memory of her deceased husband and daughter.
It remained a private hospital until 1981, when it became a nursing home due to increasing federal and state regulations. It was renamed the Eastport Memorial Nursing Home.
About This Item
- Title: Eastport Memorial Hospital, ca. 1945
- Creation Date: circa 1945
- Subject Date: circa 1945
- Location: Eastport, Washington County, ME
- Media: Glass Negative
- Dimensions: 12.75 cm x 17.75 cm
- Local Code: LB2007.1.117920
- Object Type: Image
Cross Reference Searches
Standardized Subject Headings
- Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company
- Postcards--Maine
- Photographs--Maine
- Hospitals--Maine--Eastport
- Nursing homes--Maine--Eastport
- Houses--Maine--Eastport
- Capen, C.E.--Homes and haunts--Maine--Eastport
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Penobscot Marine MuseumPO Box 498, 5 Church Street, Searsport, ME 04974
(207) 548-2529
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