Visit to Poe's House

Today I headed out to visit Edgar Allan Poe's house.  Sadly the museum inside the house has been closed to the public, so I really just did a drive by of the boarded up row house.  The home was set for demolition for a public housing project in the 1930s, but was saved because of historical purposes (it was officially listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1972).  It was while he was living in this house he wrote and published The Raven (yes this is where the football team's name comes from).

Four years later Poe died mysteriously at Washington College Hospital which is just down the road from Hopkins medical campus.  There is tons of possibilities some of the favorites include alcoholism, murder plot theory, suicide related to depression an overdose from a tranquilizer/pain killer.  Sadly the world will never know because his death certificate was lost.  You can visit his his grave at Westminster Hall (that is an adventure for another day).