page_title: Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
section_title: Recent history
hierarchical_section_title: Edgar Allan Poe Cottage / History / Recent history
caption_attribution_description: Looking west towards en:Edgar Allan Poe cottage - with vicinity in the Bronx, NYC, including East Kingsbridge Road in foreground and Grand Concourse in background. See also File:Poecottage-without-vicinity.jpg
context_page_description: The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage is the former home of American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It is located on Kingsbridge Road and the Grand Concourse in the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx, New York, a short distance from its original location, and is now in the northern part of Poe Park.
  The cottage is a part of the Historic House Trust, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been administered by the Bronx County Historical Society since 1975, and is believed to have been built in 1797.
context_section_description: In 1962, Poe's Cottage was designated a landmark in The Bronx, and in 1966 it was recognized by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. In 1974, vandals struck again, leading to further criticism of the Cottage's management and preservation efforts.
  Vandalism continued to occur over the next few years, though it tapered off by the end of the following decade, becoming less of a risk due in part to the increased use of live-in caretakers. In the late 1990s, the cottage was under the care of a graduate student in philology who lived in the basement.
  In 2007, the proposed Visitors Center for the Cottage and Bronx Historical Society in Poe Park was honored by the New York City Art Commission's 2007 Design Awards.
caption: Poe Park and Kingsbridge Road today
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