too soon in his career , authorStephen King(It , The Shining , The Outsider ) embraced his public part of being a nervous writer of the macabre . Hepurchaseda 19th - century Victorian mansion in Bangor , Maine in 1980 for $ 135,000 andspentsome Halloweens out of doors passing out candy to pull a fast one on - or - treaters .
Now , King ’s hall is position to become something of a Bangor landmark . AsRolling Stonereports , King and his married woman Tabitha requested that their private home at 47 West Broadway be rezoned as a non-profit-making center , which the Bangor City Council granted this week . The program is to turn the home into a museum devoted to King ’s work as well as a author ’s retirement .
King is n’t evicting himself , precisely . While he remains the owner , he and his folk have spent less time at the mansion over the age , alternatively residing in Florida or Oxford County , Maine .
before long after King purchased the home , hewroteand read loudly an essay address why he chose Bangor and his earliest impressions of 47 West Broadway . “ I cerebrate it disapproved of us at first , ” he write . “ The parlor seemed frigid in a way that had small to do with temperature . The Arabian tea would not go into that room ; the kids avoided it . My oldest son was convinced there were ghosts in the gun enclosure tug … ” A few months in , King call in , his kinsfolk began to adjudicate in .
The Bangor home hasmorphedinto a tourist attraction of sort over time , with fans of King ’s making a pilgrim’s journey to the spot to take photo or idle around its ornate branding iron gate . presently they ’ll be able to peek inside , though the museum will be by appointment only . It ’s not yet known when the place will open to visitant or how writers can employ to stay there .
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