Places where things go bump in the night, and sometimes during the day.
The Coyler House
ca. 1819
Mount Misery Road
Melville, New York
Built by Walt Whitman, Sr., the design of the structure is almost identical to that of the Whitman's birthplace. The house was originally part of a farm of 80 acres acquired by Richard Coyler from Tredwell Whitman and has been the subject of numerous sketches and paintings, including those of George Avery, Rudolph Ruzicka, and Hobart Nichols. At the time of the poet's visit to the house in 1850, it was occupied by Walt's Aunt Sarah and her daughter Hannah, the widow of Richard Coyler, "These three days, we have been on a visit (father and myself) to West Hills, the old native place. We went up in the L.I.R.R., and so in the stage to Woodbury--then on foot along the turnpike and 'across lots' to Colyer's, I plumped in the kitchen door. Aunt S. (Sarah), father's sister, was standing there."
I've spoke recently to a fellow who was a teenager in the 1970s, and who remembered the legend that the house was haunted. According to the stories, the Army Corp of Engineers was brought in to investigate, the thought being that perhaps the incidents had a geological source. It was also about this time that this area of Mount Misery was closed to the public, following a rash of UFO sightings.
ca. 1819
Mount Misery Road
Melville, New York
Built by Walt Whitman, Sr., the design of the structure is almost identical to that of the Whitman's birthplace. The house was originally part of a farm of 80 acres acquired by Richard Coyler from Tredwell Whitman and has been the subject of numerous sketches and paintings, including those of George Avery, Rudolph Ruzicka, and Hobart Nichols. At the time of the poet's visit to the house in 1850, it was occupied by Walt's Aunt Sarah and her daughter Hannah, the widow of Richard Coyler, "These three days, we have been on a visit (father and myself) to West Hills, the old native place. We went up in the L.I.R.R., and so in the stage to Woodbury--then on foot along the turnpike and 'across lots' to Colyer's, I plumped in the kitchen door. Aunt S. (Sarah), father's sister, was standing there."
I've spoke recently to a fellow who was a teenager in the 1970s, and who remembered the legend that the house was haunted. According to the stories, the Army Corp of Engineers was brought in to investigate, the thought being that perhaps the incidents had a geological source. It was also about this time that this area of Mount Misery was closed to the public, following a rash of UFO sightings.
The Coyler House
ca. 1819
Mount Misery Road
Melville, New York
Built by Walt Whitman, Sr., the design of the structure is almost identical to that of the Whitman's birthplace. The house was originally part of a farm of 80 acres acquired by Richard Coyler from Tredwell Whitman and has been the subject of numerous sketches and paintings, including those of George Avery, Rudolph Ruzicka, and Hobart Nichols. At the time of the poet's visit to the house in 1850, it was occupied by Walt's Aunt Sarah and her daughter Hannah, the widow of Richard Coyler, "These three days, we have been on a visit (father and myself) to West Hills, the old native place. We went up in the L.I.R.R., and so in the stage to Woodbury--then on foot along the turnpike and 'across lots' to Colyer's, I plumped in the kitchen door. Aunt S. (Sarah), father's sister, was standing there."
I've spoke recently to a fellow who was a teenager in the 1970s, and who remembered the legend that the house was haunted. According to the stories, the Army Corp of Engineers was brought in to investigate, the thought being that perhaps the incidents had a geological source. It was also about this time that this area of Mount Misery was closed to the public, following a rash of UFO sightings.
ca. 1819
Mount Misery Road
Melville, New York
Built by Walt Whitman, Sr., the design of the structure is almost identical to that of the Whitman's birthplace. The house was originally part of a farm of 80 acres acquired by Richard Coyler from Tredwell Whitman and has been the subject of numerous sketches and paintings, including those of George Avery, Rudolph Ruzicka, and Hobart Nichols. At the time of the poet's visit to the house in 1850, it was occupied by Walt's Aunt Sarah and her daughter Hannah, the widow of Richard Coyler, "These three days, we have been on a visit (father and myself) to West Hills, the old native place. We went up in the L.I.R.R., and so in the stage to Woodbury--then on foot along the turnpike and 'across lots' to Colyer's, I plumped in the kitchen door. Aunt S. (Sarah), father's sister, was standing there."
I've spoke recently to a fellow who was a teenager in the 1970s, and who remembered the legend that the house was haunted. According to the stories, the Army Corp of Engineers was brought in to investigate, the thought being that perhaps the incidents had a geological source. It was also about this time that this area of Mount Misery was closed to the public, following a rash of UFO sightings.
