📍Poe Cottage, 2640 Grand Concourse, Bronx, NY 10458, USA
1846 – 1849“My mother, an actress, died when I was two, and I was taken in, though never adopted, by John Allan, a Richmond merchant; we quarrelled until he cut me off, and I was poor all my life. In 1846 I rented a small white wooden cottage at Fordham, then a quiet country village of farms, woods and rolling hills north of New York City, for a hundred dollars a year. I brought my young wife Virginia there because she had consumption and the doctors believed fresh air and light might save her, along with her mother, Maria, who kept house. There were cherry trees in the yard, and I walked the high ridge nearby and the grounds of the Jesuit college. Virginia died in the cottage the next winter. I stayed on, writing in the little rooms, and among the works I wrote there were Annabel Lee, which many believe was for her, The Bells, and The Cask of Amontillado. The cottage was moved across the road in 1913 into what is now Poe Park, and the Bronx County Historical Society keeps it as a museum.”
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