Edgar Allan Poe Home Site - New York City

Edgar Allan Poe's home site is located on West 3rd Street in New York City.  It was here the celebrated author lived from 1845 to 1846.  Fresh off the success - literary, not financial - of "The Raven," Poe bought an interest in The Broadway Journal and moved back into the city from the Brennen farnmhouse in upper Manhattan, where he had been living since 1844.  After several brief stays at two other houses, Poe, his wife, Virginia, and her mother, Maria Clemm, moved into a home on this site, which was numbered 85 Amity Street, now West 3rd Street.  By 1846 The Broadway Journal had gone bust and Virginia's tuburculosis was worsening, so Poe moved the family to a cottage in the Bronx, where Virginia died in 1847.  In 2000 New York University tore down the Poe house to make room for a new NYU Law School building.  The facade of the new building has been reconstructed to resemble that of the original.  The building also contains an original staircase and a Poe reading room.  There is also a plaque on the front of the building explaining Poe's time here.   

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