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The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site today isn’t your typical historic house museum. Rather than furnished rooms, there are illustrations displayed along the walls that show how the home’s rooms may have once been furnished when Edgar Allan Poe lived there. Visitors can explore the historic home of Poe in Philadelphia during a tour that last around thirty to forty-five minutes, or choose to just to do their own self-guided tour through the house. Guests who feel a bit daring can go down to the home’s basement that has a rather striking similarity to the basement described by Poe in “The Black Cat.”

532 N 7th St, Philadelphia, PA 19123, Phone: 215-965-2305

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