The Baltimore Poe House and Museum050

A young Edgar Allan Poe lived in the house now known as The Baltimore Poe House and Museum from around 1832 to 1836, and penned some of his famous stories and poems behind its walls.

In addition to the house itself, a number of pieces related to Poe are exhibited, including glassware and china, a telescope reputedly used by Poe, Poe's sextant, a traveling desk he presumably used at the University of Virginia, and a full-sized color reproduction of the only known portrait of Poe's wife, Virginia, done at her death in 1847. A set of Gustave Dore's 1884 illustrations for Poe's The Raven are featured, as well as a series of videos and other displays relate to Poe's life as an author and his death.