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The Herman Melville House is a historic home located at Lansingburgh in Troy, Rensselaer County, New York. It was a home of author Herman Melville between 1838 and 1847. ==History== The home was originally built about 1786 and substantially remodeled in the Late Victorian style about 1872. It is a -story, brick and timber frame dwelling with a gable roof. It has a 2-story rear wing. Herman Melville and his family moved to Lansingburgh in 1838 after deaths in the family and financial concerns. Five years later, in 1843, Melville's brother Allan reflected on the house as "very pleasantly situated on the bank of the Hudson (where I am now writing). Economy was the object of this change of location, and the only one which influenced my mother to forsake the 'place of her heart,' her early companions and old friends."〔Parker, Hershel. ''Herman Melville: A Biography. Volume One, 1819-1851''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996: 126. ISBN 0-8018-8185-4〕 The building is today preserved and maintained by the Lansingburgh Historical Society.〔 ''See also:'' 〕 It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herman Melville House (Troy, New York)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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