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The fall of the house of Edgar

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20070218
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CITY WEEKLY

More than 30 years ago, not long after I moved into an apartment on Carver Street, I was informed by a long-term resident of the street's Edgar Allan Poe connection. The address mentioned in your article as the likely location of Poe's birth, 62 Carver St., is consistent with what I was told.

It is important to note, though, that 62 Carver St. would not have been on the part of the street where the plaque is now, an "alley full of trucks servicing the state Transportation Building."

The only Carver Street addresses demolished for the Transportation Building were those at 12, 14, ...

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