The site of the old Hagen's Hotel which burned down in 1957. There was a unique statue of a black boy with a fishing pole in front of the entrance. In years past Melville had as many as three or four rooming houses opened at the same time.
There's a house
whose rooms I know by heart
where Mother tended the garden
and I read by books
where dreams were dreamt
and memories made
where we children grew up
and my parents grew old
there's a house where life was lived
a house where I belong
in my old home town of Melville
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