Edgar Allan Poe Museum (other)
Edgar Allan Poe Museum or Edgar Allan Poe House may refer to: *Edgar Allan Poe House (Fayetteville, North Carolina) *Edgar Allan Poe House (Lenoir, North Carolina) *Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland *Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia) See also *Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, in the Bronx, New York *Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site is a preserved home once rented by American author Edgar Allan Poe, located at 532 N. 7th Street, in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Though Poe lived in many houses over s ...

Edgar Allan Poe House (Fayetteville, North Carolina)
The Edgar Allan "E. A." Poe House is a historic home located at Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. It was built between 1896 and 1898, and is a two-story, three-bay frame house with Eastlake movement / Stick Style decorative elements. It features a wraparound porch which is double-tiered in the central bay and graced by delicate sawnwork and turned posts. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is located in the Haymount Historic District. It is named after the successful businessman, politician, and civic leader who built it; not the well-known American author Edgar Allan Poe. To avoid confusion, the Fayetteville native is generally referenced as "E. A." in the local area and the historic house museum is known simply as Poe House. It is also referenced as the 1897 Poe House and part of the Museum of the Cape Fear Historical Complex. See also *Edgar Allan Poe House (Lenoir, North Carolina) *Edgar Allan Poe Museum (disambiguation ...
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Edgar Allan Poe House (Lenoir, North Carolina)
The Edgar Allan Poe House is a historic home located in Caldwell County at 506 Main Street NW in Lenoir, North Carolina. The two-story Dutch Colonial Revival style house with wraparound porch and gambrel roof was built in 1905 by Edgar Allan Poe, who was not the famous Boston poet born 1809. After finishing law school, Poe moved to Asheville in 1890 and worked as a carpenter with local architecture firm Alfonse, building structures in Hickory. Additionally Poe contributed to the beginning construction of Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate in Asheville. The business district in the town of Lenoir was founded in 1841. Growth was slow until the arrival of Chester & Lenoir Railroad in 1884, which boosted trade and industrial development. During this local industrial boom, Poe moved from his native home of Dallas, North Carolina to Lenoir in 1893. Poe constructed several commercial buildings in Lenoir including the Courtney Building (1907) and the Lenoir Furniture and Hardware Building ...
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Edgar Allan Poe House And Museum
The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, located at 203 North Amity St. in Baltimore, Maryland, is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe in the 1830s. The small unassuming structure, which was opened as a writer's house museum in 1949, is a typical row home. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972. Due to a loss of funding by the city of Baltimore, the Museum closed to the public in October 2012. Poe Baltimore, the Museum's new governing body, reopened the museum to the public on October 5, 2013. The house is the site for the International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards, held in October of each year. History The brick home, then numbered 3 Amity St.,Silverman, Kenneth. ''Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance''. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991. p. 96. and now numbered 203 North Amity Street, is assumed to have been built in 1830 and rented by Poe's aunt Maria Clemm in 1832. Clemm was joined in the home by her ailing mother, Elizabeth Ca ...
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Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Richmond, Virginia)
The Poe Museum or the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, is a museum located in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia, United States, dedicated to American writer Edgar Allan Poe. Though Poe never lived in the building, it serves to commemorate his time living in Richmond. The museum holds one of the world's largest collections of original manuscripts, letters, first editions, memorabilia and personal belongings. The museum also provides an overview of early 19th century Richmond, where Poe lived and worked. The museum features the life and career of Poe by documenting his accomplishments with pictures, relics, and verse, and focusing on his many years in Richmond. Old Stone House The Poe Museum is located at the "Old Stone House", built circa 1740Scott, Mary Wingfield, ''Houses of Old Richmond'', The Valentine Museum, Richmond, 1941, pp 7-10 and cited as the oldest original residential building in Richmond.
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Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (or Poe Cottage) is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It is located on Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, a short distance from its original location, and is now in the northern part of Poe Park. The cottage is a part of the Historic House Trust, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been administered by the Bronx County Historical Society since 1975, and is believed to have been built in 1797. ''See also:'' History Poe family years The Poe family—which included Edgar, his wife Virginia Clemm, and her mother Maria—moved in around May 1846Silverman, Kenneth. ''Edgar Allan Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance''. New York: Harper Perennial, 1991: 301. after living for a short time in Turtle Bay, Manhattan.Meyers, Jeffrey. ''Edgar Allan Poe: His Life and Legacy''. New York: Cooper Square Press, 1992: 193. . At the time, Fordham was rural, not ye ...
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