The Edgar Allan Poe House & Museum

Edgar Allan Poe lived at this address in Baltimore—in what was then the countryside—with his aunt (and later mother-in-law), Maria Clemm, her ailing mother (Elizabeth Cairnes Poe, aged 73), her daughter (Virginia Eliza Clemm, aged 10, later Poe's wife), and perhaps her son (Henry Clemm, aged 14) for two or three years from about 1832 until 1835 when he moved to Richmond to edit The Southern Literary Messenger.

The 2 ½ story, 5 room house is now open to the public from April through November (limited hours) as a museum, with displays featuring some of Poe's personal effects, portraits of the writer and his family, and mementos of Poe's life and death—including evidence left by Baltimore's mysterious Poe Toaster—as well as several videos and artifacts relating to Poe's work.

For a comprehensive list of Poe's works that he may have authored or worked on while living at 203 Amity Street, visit www.eapoe.org