Edgar Allan Poe Square, at the intersection of Broadway, Fayette, and Carver Street, Boston, 1928.
Today's City Weekly in the Boston Globe has a front page article on the lack of respect Edgar Allan Poe receives in his hometown of Boston. Bostonians obviously thought enough of Poe to name a square after him, near his birthplace--the 1928 map above shows the location. Part of the problem is that this part of Boston has been reconfigured--Carver Street has been lost, and Charles Street South has replaced it to make a straight line from Tremont Street to Charles Street. I believe what used to be the corner of Broadway and Fayette is still open space however, although no marker is in place. It would certainly be a simple matter to reinform the public of the historic name of this area of Bay Village.
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I've always been struck by the almost complete lack of attention to the Poe/Boston connection. I haven't read the Globe story yet, but can't wait to.
Posted by: Rhea | 28 January 2007 at 17:50
There's a marker on the corner of Boylston and that alley that goes behind the Transportation Building.
Posted by: Devin | 29 January 2007 at 09:53
You can view a photograph of the house of Poe's birth 62 Carver street at this address: http://rfi.bostonhistory.org/boston/full/000276.jpg
Posted by: | 29 January 2007 at 16:07