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Reply To: | BP - "Callahan's Preservationeers" |
Date: | Fri, 21 Apr 2000 13:01:30 -0400 |
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I say you go in and tear up the floor. If you don't find a telltale heart
there or a cask of Amontillado in the basement or a lot of black bird
feather up on top of the bookshelf you tear the place down (preferably with
die-no-mite--that always makes the evening news and has great entertainment
value). This country needs a lot more lawyers more than it needs another
old building...
Signed, Edger Alien Who
>The Poe House is sturdy, unassuming four-story brick residence currently
used
>for office space by the NYU law school. Its doorstoop was removed and its
>lower facade altered sometime in the early 20th century, but otherwise the
>building compares remarkably well with an early drawing showing the
original
>exterior.
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>If any preservationists or historians can help in saving this historic
>building, please contact Michael Deas at (504) 524-3957, or by e-mail at
>[log in to unmask] The assistance of the preservation community is
urgently
>needed to save this, the last surviving vestige of Edgar Allan Poe's life
in
>Manhattan.
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