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Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, Baltimore, MD

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Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

Tour the small West Baltimore brick row house where Edgar Allan Poe lived with his aunt's family in the 1830s.

203 N Amity St · Baltimore, MD

About Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

Edgar Allan Poe lived in this small 2.5-story brick house from about 1833 to 1835 with his aunt Maria Clemm, his grandmother and his young cousin Virginia, whom he later married. In 1833 he won a Baltimore Saturday Visiter prize for his story MS. Found in a Bottle. You climb to the cramped top-floor room under a steeply pitched ceiling. The house is a National Historic Landmark run by the nonprofit Poe Baltimore, which holds an International Edgar Allan Poe Festival each October.

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