![]() ![]() ![]() John’s Graveyard, a melancholy setting, which must have appealed to his romantic nature. This house was located across the street from St. On Carmine Street, Poe wrote The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, The Murders in the Rue Morgue and The Gold Bug. (l.) 85 West 3rd Street, the Edgar Allan Poe House prior to demolition by NYU, and (r.) with its facade recreated and embeded into NYU’s Law School Building, not unlike Poe’s ghoulish story “The Cask of Amontillado,” photo courtesy of NYPAPīy the spring of that year they had already moved to 113-1/2 Carmine Street. They did not have an auspicious start to their time in the Village, though Poe was an attendee of Ann Charlotte Lynch Botta’s famous literary salon for a time, which helped him to launch his literary career. In February of 1837 Poe arrived in New York, and took up his residence in a no-longer-standing house at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Waverly Place with his wife Virginia and her mother. Probably the most romantic and tragic figure in American literature in the first half of the nineteenth century was Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). ![]()
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