In today's blog, we continue to investigate Edgar Allen Poe by leaving his burial place in Baltimore and going to a row house where he lived with his wife (and 2nd cousin) Virginia Clemm, and his mother-in-law.LOCATED - The Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, located at 203 North Amity St. in Baltimore, Maryland.
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| Ruthie and Tom leaving the Poe graveyard |
HISTORY OF THE HOUSE - In a tiny brick house on Baltimore’s North Amity Street in 1833-1835 Edgar Allan Poe wrote some of the early stories that would make him the father of the modern short story, and create and define the modern genres of mystery, horror and science fiction.
Poe’s home is in an excellent state of preservation with much of the
exterior and interior original fabric from the 1833-1835 period when
Edgar lived there with his aunt, grandmother and two cousins. While the
house is not furnished, visitors walk on the same floors, stairs and
wander within the original plaster walls and woodwork that Edgar lived
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| On the corner of Edgar Allen Poe Square |
EXHIBITS - Exhibits tell the story of Edgar Allan Poe’s life and death in Baltimore and significant artifacts such as Edgar’s portable writing desk and chair, and a telescope, china and glassware used by Edgar when living with the Allan family in Richmond, Virginia.
NEXT: A GHOSTLY FEELING IN THE POE HOUSE
