ARTSCULTURE · HISTORICAL MARKER

85 West Third Street (Originally Amity Street)

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In 1845-46, Edgar Allan Poe lived near this site in a house built in 1835 for Judah Hammond. Here he wrote “The facts in the case of M. Valdemar”, “The Sphinx”’ and began “The Cask of Amontillado”’ as well as the “Literati of New York City”. The current façade is an interpretative reconstruction.
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