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Last home (1846–49) of the famous poet & author with period furnishings & exhibits on his life.
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Reviews — 8
A great slice of history for fans of Poe or just the history of the area. The cottage is well-preserved and gives a good feeling of what it like to live there. Our tour guide was very friendly and knowledgeable.
Google shows that this open Friday - IT IS NOT OPEN FRIDAY.
You can contact them and arrange a private tour. It looks just like the photos from the outside. Blocked by a fence. The visitor center has nothing to do with the cottage.
3 stars for the potential of what’s on the inside. We made a special trip here, thinking it was open, so slightly disappointed. It was easy to net to from the MTA train.
You can contact them and arrange a private tour. It looks just like the photos from the outside. Blocked by a fence. The visitor center has nothing to do with the cottage.
3 stars for the potential of what’s on the inside. We made a special trip here, thinking it was open, so slightly disappointed. It was easy to net to from the MTA train.
It was closed… find out later that you have to request or announce your visit beforehand.
The cottage was a neat place to visit. We walked from Gino’s Pastry shop, which is about a mile. However, the subway runs right across the street from the cottage. They have a big fence around the cottage. Really all you can do is take a picture and be on your way. Still pretty cool to see though.
I love having a piece of History in the Bronx. To know the building across the street were once apple orchards is crazy. Edgar Allan Poe was a great writer and poet and to know he wrote a few of his poems in that very cottage is nostalgic.
The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage was undergoing major restoration at the time of my visit. I intend to return once the cottage reopens, and I will re-evaluate my rating then. However, I feel more than justified in awarding four stars at this time. It is easy to forget about how much it costs to properly keep up historical residences (even small ones). In a city like New York, it would be easy to demolish this humble abode rather than keep it up. Certainly, it would likely be easier and more profitable to do so rather than preserve this scrap of history. These points are worth recognition.
Poe had the worst luck during his life and in the afterlife....his house in Baltimore sits in the middle of low-income housing developments, the house he lived in around 1846 in NY is in the middle of the Grand Concourse in the Bronx now, his headstone in Baltimore was destroyed by a runaway train....the list goes on...
To think he wrote the following lines in this very house was quite endearing.
"It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know..."
To think he wrote the following lines in this very house was quite endearing.
"It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know..."