Later he moved to New York and in 1849 he died in Baltimore, Maryland. Some of the sites paying tribute to Poe in the mid-Atlantic area can be found in Philadelphia, New York City and Richmond. The City of Brotherly Love is home to The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site. Here, his life and work are portrayed in a three-building complex. 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.