The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage was the last home of the famous American writer Edgar Allan Poe. A small cottage built in 1812 and located in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, in what is now Poe Park, the historic house museum was a home to Poe, his wife Virginia, and mother-in-law Mrs. Maria Clemm. The famous writer died in it in 1849. The cottage is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has been managed by the Bronx County Historical Society since 1975. The city of New York purchased the cottage in 1913 and opened it as a house museum the same year.

Address: The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, 2640 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10458

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