Locations from The Shunned House
(written in 1924)
135 Benefit Street - The Shunned House
We passed by this house while trying to count numbers to find it...but we both had a funny feeling that this was the house. We backtracked, parked, and hopped out to the take the photos. Signs on the gate warn of a "chien bizarre" and a "chien lunatique" - evidently the owners have a crazy dog. (Note the presence of the official BloopWatch van in the foreground. ;) )
"The house was - and for that matter still is - of a kind to attract the attention of the curious. Originally a farm or semi-farm building, it followed the average New England colonial lines of the middle eighteenth century - the prosperous peaked-roof sort, with two stories and dormerless attic, and with the Georgian doorway and interior paneling dictated by the progress of taste at that time. It faced south, with one gable and buried to the lower windows in the east ward rising hill, and the other exposed to the foundations toward the street."
from The Shunned House
Yep. That's it alright.
St. John's Churchyard
"I have reared a marble urn to his memory in St. John's churchyard - the place that Poe loved - the hidden grove of giant willows on the hill, where tombs and head stones huddle quietly between the hoary bulk of the church and the houses and bank walls of Benefit Street. "
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