Edgar Allan Poe House

"The little house in the lowly street with the lovely name," is how American author, Poet and critic Edgar Allan Poe described the two-bay, two-and-a-half story brick building where he resided from 1833 to 1835. Poe was born in Boston ...

National Historic Landmark-Edgar Allan Poe House

National Historic Landmark- Edgar Allen Poe House

From 1842 to 1844, this was the home of Edgar Allen Poe (1809-1849). Poe wrote some of his best-known short stories in this small brick cottage. In 1978, this became the Edgar Allan Poe ...

Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)—writer, poet, and

critic—was born in Boston, Mass. Orphaned at a

young age, Poe was raised by John and Frances Allan of Richmond. He attended schools in

England and Richmond before enrolling at the University of Virginia on 14 Feb. ...

Original Burial Place of Edgar Allan Poe

From

October 9, 1849

until

November 17, 1875

Mrs. Maria Glemm, his mother-in-law, lies upon his right and Virginia Poe, his wife, upon his left, under the monument erected to him in this cemetery.

Marker can be reached from the ...

A Monument to the Memory of Edgar Allan Poe

"My idea in designing this monument was to produce something simple, chaste, and dignified, to strike more by graceful outlines and proportions than by crowding with unmeaning ornament."

George A. Frederick, ca. 1874

The November 1875 unveiling of the Poe Monument culminated ...

A La Memorie D’Edgar Allan Poe

Eternellement Cher Dans les Coeurs

De Ses Amis Francais

This memorial originally in brass, was brought from France by Count F. de Byron-Khun et Prince Edgard de Waldeck under the auspices of the French Literary Society and placed here in the presence ...

Edgar Allan Poe House

“The little house in the lowly street with the lovely name.” This was how Edgar Allan Poe described 203 Amity Street, where he lived from 1832 to 1835 with his grandmother, aunt, and cousin Virginia, whom he married in 1836.

While ...