The cottage in the Bronx where Edgar Allan Poe lived near the end of his life is called Poe Cottage.
Poe, his wife Virginia, and his mother-in-law Maria Clemm moved into the small Fordham cottage around May 1846. Fordham was then a rural community outside the modern boundaries of the Bronx, and the family paid either $5 per month or $100 per year in rent. The home had a sitting room, kitchen, bedroom, and Poe’s study.
The cottage was an important setting during Poe’s final years. He wrote “Annabel Lee” and “Ulalume” while living there, and the bells of nearby St. John’s College helped inspire his poem “The Bells.” Virginia, who suffered from tuberculosis, died in the cottage on January 30, 1847. Poe himself died in Baltimore on October 7, 1849, after the family had left Fordham.
The building was moved a short distance in 1913 and now stands in Poe Park near the Grand Concourse. It is commonly called Poe Cottage or the Edgar Allan Poe Cottage—not any of the fictional names suggested by the wrong options.