Edgar Allan Poe cottage

The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (or Poe Cottage) is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It is located on Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse in the The Bronx, New York,[2] a short distance from its original location, and is now in the northern part of Poe Park.

The cottage is a part of the Historic House Trust, listed on the National Register of Historic Places,[3] has been administered by the Bronx County Historical Society since 1975,[4] and is believed to have been built in 1797.[2][5]

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  • 1 History
    • 1.1 Poe family years
    • 1.2 The cottage is moved
    • 1.3 Recent history
  • 2 See also
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

History[edit]

Poe family years[edit]

The Poe family-which included Edgar, his wife Virginia Clemm, and her mother Maria-moved in around May 1846[6] after living for a short time in Turtle Bay, Manhattan.[7] At the time, Fordham was rural and was only recently connected to the city by rail.[6] The cottage, which was then on Kingsbridge Road to the east of its intersection with Valentine Avenue, was small and simple: it had on its first floor a sitting room and kitchen and its unheated second floor had a bedroom and Poe's study. On the front porch the family kept caged songbirds.[7] The home sat on 2 acres (8,100 m2) of land and Poe paid either $5 rent per month[2] or $100 per year.[8] Its owner, John Valentine, had bought it from a man named Richard Corsa on March 28, 1846,[9] for $1000.[10]