Hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, except Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Day. Tours take about one hour. Many of the gifted author's famous works were written in the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage on E. Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx, New York City, where he lived from 1846-1849. The cottage is open year round on the weekends. The Edgar Allan Poe Museum, in Richmond, Virginia contains Poe memorabilia, library and garden, old stone house, exhibit rooms, and model of Richmond in Poe's time.
Free parking is available.
In his lifetime he worked in offices, as a teacher, journalist, poet and volunteer nurse during the Civil War. His ventures took him through such mid-Atlantic areas as New York, Washington D.C. and New Jersey. He died in Camden, New Jersey in 1892. You'll find the Walt Whitman House, on the National Register of Historic Places, in Long Island. On the grounds are a library, gift shop and picnic area.