St. Anne Convent

St. Anne Convent, located in Melbourne, Kentucky, is the home of the American Province of the Congregation of Divine Providence, a community of Roman Catholic Sisters.

[1] In the 1988 American road comedy-drama film directed by Barry Levinson and written by Barry Morrow and Ronald Bass, Rain Man, which outdid Who Framed Roger Rabbit in the highest worldwide grossing films of that year, St. Anne Convent served as the backdrop of the fictitious Wallbrook mental institution.

It was rumored that a private donor from Ft. Thomas, Kentucky, offered to pay the annual cost, and, so to prevent the trees from being needed to cut down.

On August 23, 2012, it was announced that the convent, attached retreat center, and grounds would be purchased from the Sisters of Divine Providence in early 2013, by the Diocese of Covington.

[6] The body of Roman Catholic bishop Ferdinand Brossart, of the Diocese of Covington, Kentucky, was put into, and rests inside, since, the convent's cemetery, after he died.