Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site

Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
The building on the right is the historic house, on the left is the visitor center
Coordinates: 39 ° 57 ′ 44 ″  N , 75 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  W.
Location:	Pennsylvania , United States
Next city:	Philadelphia
Surface:	2104 m²
Founding:	October 15, 1966
Visitors:	16,584 (2010)
The unrestored interior of the house

Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site is a protected building in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia , Pennsylvania . Writer Edgar Allan Poe had rented the brick house while in Philadelphia.

Edgar Allan Poe in Philadelphia

Edgar Allan Poe lived in Philadelphia from 1837 to 1844. Here he created the character of the detective C. Auguste Dupin in The Murders in the Rue Morgue and wrote short stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart . In Philadelphia he met Charles Dickens during his first trip to America. Poe lived in the house from 1842 to 1844.

The raven statue in front of the building is reminiscent of Poe's famous poem

Edgar Allan Poe lived in a variety of houses in Philadelphia, but only the house, which is part of the National Historic Site, survives to this day. Richard Gimpel, a rare book collector, bought it in 1933 and turned it into a museum, open to the public on the anniversary of Poe's birth and death. When Gimpel died in 1971, he bequeathed the house to the City of Philadelphia.

Today Poe's actual house has deliberately not been restored or furnished because the furnishings from that time have not been preserved. The visitor center in the annexed part of the building, which did not exist in Poe's time, has furnished two rooms in the style of the time in addition to an exhibition on the author's life and work. These rooms are only intended to give a general impression, because, as the National Park Service emphasizes, there are no documents that can be used to reconstruct the actual facility in Poe's time.

The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site is affiliated with the Independence National Historical Park and has been added to the National Register of Historic Places . The Historic Site has two adjoining buildings that contain a visitor center with an exhibition and a reading room.

The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site has been open to the public since 1980.

See also

• Edgar Allan Poe Museum

proof

1. ↑ ^{a b} Niccole Burns: Poe in Philadelphia , School of Communication - University of Miami November 15, 2006
2. ^ National Park Service: Edgar Allen Poe NHS - The House Through the Years
3. ^ Independence National Historical Park

Web links

Commons : Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

• National Park Service: Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site (official site; English)