The House Where Stephen King Wrote ‘IT’ Will Become a Museum and Writer’s Retreat: WATCH
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Stephen King and his wife Tabitha appeared before the Bangor City Council in an attempt to rezone their Bangor, Maine mansion into a non-profit building that will double as both an archive and museum of King’s work as well as a place where writers can come and live and write.
The motion passed unanimously.
Stephen King's Bangor home is becoming a museum and writer's retreat https://t.co/uhhMY0hWiS pic.twitter.com/nVlVjHAoyM
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) October 17, 2019
According to Rolling Stone, “In a 1983 essay, owned by the Bangor Historical Society, King explained that when he first moved to the town, the idea for IT was stewing in his mind. The book was set in fictional Derry, Maine, a proxy of Bangor.”
“I had a very long book in mind, a book which I hoped would deal with the way myths and dreams and stories — stories, most of all — become a part of the everyday life of a small American city,” he wrote, detailing how he visited the town library to research its history. The librarian informed him that they had 12 tomes about Bangor, but none were all that good.
Watch the video below about the house.
