Owl's Nest, also known as Edward Eggleston Estate, is a National Historic Landmark. Edward Eggleston, 1837-1902, was one of America's first realist writers. He began summering there in the 1870s and it was his permanent home from the mid-1880s until his death.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
It is located on NY 9L, in the area of Joshua's Rock, in Lake George, New York.
Famous quotes containing the words owl and/or nest:
“It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern’st good night.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Merrily swinging on brier and weed,
Near to the nest of his litle dame,
Over the mountainside or mead,
Robert of Lincoln is telling his name:
Bob-o’-link, bob-o’-link,”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)