Place 13: Derry Community House
1958; 1985About a block from the library, on the Kansas/Costello corridor. The precise frontage is inferred. Kept distinct from City Center and the Town House hotel.
About Derry Community House
Derry Community House is a civic building in the Kansas Street and Costello Avenue corridor, close to the Public Library. It appears as a separate institution rather than part of the library, City Center, or the Town House hotel. Its repeated relationship to the library makes it a useful downtown reference point in both 1958 and 1985. The atlas gives it a distinct building site while keeping its architecture and frontage deliberately general.
Why this pin is marked A
Named in the novel. The street or the site is named in the text; the exact lot is the atlas’s.
The Community House is marked A because it is placed about one block from the Public Library and is repeatedly connected with the same Kansas–Costello corridor. The library’s own junction is strongly anchored, so the one-block relationship provides a firm local constraint even without a complete address. The passages do not establish the exact street frontage, side of the corridor, parcel shape, or building orientation. Those details are reconstructed, while the short distance and separation from nearby civic sites are preserved.
