Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

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Edgar Allan Poe National Historical Site

“For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen,” so begins Poe’s famous short story “The Black Cat,” written while living in this house with his family. Writer, editor, popular poet and inventor of the detective story, Edgar Allan Poe still thrills readers today. Come imagine Poe’s life on Seventh Street, his only surviving residence in Philadelphia.

May Special Event

Saturday, May 10th, 2:00 pm
Ed Pettit, the City Paper journalist who created a national stir with his proposal that Philadelphia deserves Poe’s earthly remains more than Baltimore, will do a talk on George Lippard. Pettit will eventually publish a biography on Lippard, who was a much more successful author than Poe during his lifetime, and who assisted Poe as much and as often as he could.

Write to

INHP, 143 S. Third Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106

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Phone

Edgar Allan Poe House
(215) 597-8780

Fax

(215) 861-4950

Climate

Four distinct seasons with moderately cold winter and hot, humid summer. January average temperature, 33 degrees Fahrenheit; July average temperature, 75 degrees; average yearly rainfall, 41 inches; normal seasonal snowfall, 21 inches.