Residence · Riverside
No. 11 Pell Street — Irregular Interior
A narrow clapboard lodging house with a rooms-to-let card that never changes.
History
Built 1846, the year of the Great Fog. Lodgers stay a long time.
What has happened here
- The Long Hallway. The hallway of No. 11 runs on well past where the outer wall should be.
Clues found here
- Irregular Measurements. Paced carefully, the hallway of 11 Pell Street is eleven feet longer than the house is wide. The landlady refuses a tape measure.