Photograph of the fireplace in Arrowhead, the 18th-century farmhouse in Pittsfield, Massachusetts of Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick. The words "I and My Chimney" are inscribed on the stone facing of the fireplace. The story ��I and My Chimney,�� published in Putnam��s Monthly Magazine in 1856, contains one of the most complete descriptions there is of Arrowhead during the Melville occupancy. The story is a fictitious account of the efforts of a wife to remodel an ancient farm house by replacing the central chimney with a grand hallway. Melville used Arrowhead as a model for the house, and the story is filled with accurate descriptions.
