Edgar Allen Poe Cottage and Poe Park

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage, built c. 1812, is a New York City and State landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The historic house museum is famous as the final home of the writer. At the time that Poe, his ailing wife Virginia, and mother-in-law Maria Clemm moved in during the spring of 1846, the house was owned by John Valentine. Poe rented it for $100 per year. Virginia died in the house in 1847 and after Poe’s death on October 7, 1849 while in Baltimore, Maria Clemm moved out.

The Bronx County Historical Society has administered the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage as a historic house museum since 1975, in cooperation with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and the Historic House Trust of New York City.