10 August 2015

NYC #5: Edgar Allan Poe on Upper West Side

'UPON THIS SITE
FORMERLY STOOD THE BRENNEN MANSION
IN WHICH RESIDED
FROM MARCH 1844 TO AUGUST 1845
EDGAR ALLAN POE
AND HERE DURING SUCH RESIDENCE HE PRODUCED
AND GAVE TO AMERICAN LITERATURE AND TO IMMORTALITY
THE RAVEN
IN COMMEMORATION OF THE POET AND OF THE POEM
THIS TABLET IS PLACED MCMXXII BY
THE NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY'

This plaque is at West 84 Street, otherwise called Edgar Allen Poe Street, and there is (was?)  a sign in opposition to this claiming a different address which is supposed to be opposite this plaque, although no amount of looking turned anything up: perhaps it's been taken down in admission of defeat?

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