Text: Anonymous, “The Raven's Home,” Yonkers Statesman (Yonkers, NY), vol. V, no. 1,451, August 3, 1888, p. 1, col. 2

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THE RAVEN'S HOME. — The house in which Edgar Poe wrote his celebrated poem, “The Raven,” is about to be demolished. It is situated in what is now 84th street and Tenth avenue, in New York City. Fifty years ago the place was entirely in the country and surrounded by trees and woodland, but now the rocks on the east and west of the old building are being quarried away, and the house will soon share their fate. Once an hour, at least, the foundations of the cottage are shaken by an explosion of dynamite. From the west the miners are almost upon it, and those who are working from the other side will probably reach the centre in a week more. At present a great many amateur photographers are flocking to the place to take photographs of the poet's cottage while it yet stands.