About the year 1860, some charitably disposed ladies of Middletown met together to devise some way of taking care of certain ladies who, through one cause or another, had become entirely dependent on their friends for support. 1865, the house which then stood on the southwest corner of Court and Pearl Streets was purchased largely by members of Holy Trinity Parish and soon after Saint Luke’s Home was incorporated. In 1892, a financial legacy was received from Miss Harriet M. Makinster. This legacy was given to Saint Luke’s Home for the purpose of erecting a new and more adequate building for its use. Consequently, the old property was sold. With the proceeds, land was purchased on the northwest corner of Pearl and Lincoln Streets and this became the new site of Saint Luke’s Home.

In 1980, Saint Luke’s Home moved across the road from the Russell Library to an elegant house located on 114 Broad Street; seen above. This building was renamed “St. Luke’s Apartments”. This beautiful old house, once the rectory of The Holy Trinity Church, is now home to twenty-five ladies that range in age from the mid-sixties to over one hundred years. St. Luke’s Apartments are HUD subsidized.