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The Robert E. Howard Home and MuseumCoffman Street (West Side of Howard Home)
Coffman Street, the dirt road on the West side of the Howard House. The house lies immediately to the left of this photo, and the House's kitchen window looks out onto this road. Further down the right side of the road, approximately across from the closest bush/tree, the Howard's had a flat-roofed combination barn/shed/garage. During the 1930's this road continued on to wind past other houses in the neighborhood. Residents of Cross Plains who knew the Howards have given conflicting reports as to the orientation of the shed. Mrs. Butler (one of the Howards' neighbors) and Kate Merriman (a lady who was helping the Howard's keep house during Mrs. Howard's final illness) both told L. Sprague de Camp that the open doors of the shed faced East. But John Adams reports that a different neighbor of the Howards' stated that the doors faced North and that the shed rested off to the side of the road. Here on this road is presumably where Howard's car was parked the day he took his own life. |
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