"Poe generally stopped at the Mansion House in Benefit Street--the renamed Golden Ball Inn whose roof has sheltered Washington, Jefferson, and Lafayette..."

"Securing temporary quarters for himself and wife at the newly opened Golden Ball Inn..." -- The Shunned House

"He found it much less formidable to continue along Benefit Street past the iron fence of St. John's hidden churchyard and the rear of the 1761 Colony House and the mouldering bulk of the Golden Ball Inn where Washington stopped." -- The Case of Charles Dexter Ward