edgar allan poe house and museum

Cutting a duplex in half isn't ideal but Baltimore has seen it happen before.

Some residents in the West Baltimore public housing complex have been without consistent water in their homes since Monday after a water main break.

The Department of Public Works said it had restored water to the Poe Homes Saturday evening after residents went more than five days without.

The top A&E events in the Baltimore area for the week of Jan. 13-19, 2019.

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After a 15 year wait, Poppleton residents get new housing

Director Eric Stange says one of the primary goals of his film "Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive" is to go beyond what he calls the 'Halloween Poe." He does that and then some in this poetic and illuminating literary biography for American Masters on PBS.

Gary Beard's story, “A Sinister Charm,” won first place in the Baltimore County library's ghost story-writing contest.

Baltimore leaders are scheduled to gather Thursday to celebrate the start of a new multi-million apartment building in Poppleton, close to the University of Maryland BioPark.

With a black scarf wrapped around his face, the man pulled four roses from his coat pocket – three red and one white. He then placed them, one by one,

If you're not sure where to go to celebrate the great annual night of toothaches, cheap wigs, and acceptable partial nudity, fear not—City Paper has you covered

Although confidence and stage presence were a work-in-progress, Sarah Grace Hart said it was Columbia's support of the arts that led her to Los Angeles, California in 2013 to pursue an acting career, following graduation from Kent State University in Ohio. There, she joined the Shipwrecked Comedy production company, which places a comedic spin on historical literary content through a YouTube web series as told by famous authors.

Wearing all black with the broad brim of a hat to preserve his anonymity, a man stepped up to Edgar Allen Poe's grave site Saturday to resurrect the tradition of toasting the long dead writer on his birthday.

Baltimore's mysterious new ¿Poe Toaster¿ will become at least slightly less of a mystery this month. He or she will make their first appearance at a birthday celebration for Edgar Allan Poe hosted by the Maryland Historical Society and Westminster Hall & Burying Ground, reviving a tradition that began in the 1940s.

A red sign went up a few days ago on a reproduction gas street lamp marking Edgar Allan Poe Square. The square is actually just off West Lexington Street, at Amity Street, in West Baltimore. Baltimore's legendary Poe House stands there, at 203 N. Amity in the Poppleton neighborhood.

Two people were fatally shot in separate incidents early Monday, continuing a run of violence in the city over the Memorial Day weekend

Statues of Edgar Allan Poe in Baltimore and Boston have become pawns in the cities' football rivalry

Horror master was born in Boston, died in Baltimore

The city's Board of Finance approved $58.6 million in financing Monday for new homes, shops and other construction near the University of Maryland Biopark and the Edgar Allan Poe house — an area that has suffered from disinvestment and blight.

Hampden-based illustrator David Plunkert, of Cockeysville has illustrated a collection of Edgar Allan Poe's gothic stories for Rockport Publishers.

With a commemoration of Poe's death set for this weekend and a new statue of the famed author and poet unveiled recently in Boston, the curator emeritus of Baltimore 's Poe House weighs in on all things Edgar

The reopening of the Poe House is a credit to Baltimoreans.

"The Lincoln Myth" overturns misconceptions about Abraham Lincoln, the Mormon Church and the legality of secession

Approval of two apartment buildings and two parks by he city's urban design and architecture review panel is one of the first steps forward since ambitious plans to overhaul a 14-acre portion of the Poppleton neighborhood were announced almost a decade ago.

A fledgling nonprofit wants to transform the old Peale Museum into a hub celebrating Baltimore history and architecture with exhibits, a cafe, a lecture hall and office space.

The longtime head of Baltimore's Commission for Historical and Architectural Preservation, who oversaw its fight to protect the city's old structures for more than three decades, announced her retirement Tuesday.

The Polar Bear Plunge Havre de Grace-style, the Susquehanna Hose Company Duck Dunk, a fundraiser for the volunteer fire department, will be held Saturday, 9 a.m. to noon at the Havre de Grace Yacht Basin's far launch ramp.

Edgar Allan Poe, whose tales of terror continue to excite readers, lived in a crowded N. Amity Street household from 1832 to 1835.

Historians and architects have a $5 million plan to repair the pillar that was closed to the public three years ago for safety reasons. They expect it to reopen for tours — and a panoramic view of the city from 178 feet above Charles Street — for its bicentennial on Independence Day, 2015. By January, scaffolding will begin to enclose the monument for repairs from decades of water damage to the marble, stones and bricks..

Edgar Allan Poe's house reopened to the public under new operators a year after closing when city funding was cut

Officials will be offering a preview of what visitors will experience when it reopens for good in the spring

Changes afoot at Station North, Aquarium, Inner Harbor, more

Poe Baltimore, charged with operating the house as a for-profit operation, still working on details

Local boosters Mark Redfield and Jeff Jerome hold fundraiser on the 204

Concerns raised about supervision of museum site