Walt Whitman House Virtual Tour

Whitman House Visitor’s Center

• The visitor’s center is located adjacent to the Whitman house & is where visitors are given an introduction to Whitman’s history of residence in Camden.

Inside The Visitor’s Center

• Inside the visitor’s center, as you will see, there are many works of art that relate to Whitman. This is a painting of Whitman on a boat.

Inside The Visitor’s Center

• Here we see a stone sculpture of Whitman along with an array of informational brochures.

How Whitman’s Street Looked Then…

Choosing Camden

• It is thought that Whitman made the choice to move to Camden because he wanted to be in close proximity to his brother & because the city reminded him of the Long Island, NY of his youth.

Choosing Camden

• Whitman moved to Camden after suffering a stroke.

• Camden was ideal for the poet both because it was a bustling port of Philadelphia and a rapidly developing city.

Whitman’s Living Room

The Living Room

• Here is Walt’s living room…

• The rocking chair you see actually belonged to Whitman.

• The poet actually always preferred to write in a rocking chair, instead of a desk!

The Living Room

• The painting above the fireplace is a portrait of a close friend of Whitman’s.

• The statue in front of the fireplace is of president Grover Cleveland.

Can anyone guess what this is?

Carriage Step

• The carriage step was common to residences on Whitman’s street at the time he lived on it.

• The step has been preserved because of historical significance, unlike the rest on the street.

The Bedroom

• Here you see the bed that Whitman slept in…

• You can also see the tub that Whitman used to clean himself once he was bedridden.

The Outhouse

• Although Whitman’s house had hot running water before the White House, sewage technology was still developing.

Whitman House Questions

• Please take a minute to finish any of the questions that you have not yet answered on your question sheet.