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Go With the Poe; Take a tour of nothing at the house where Edgar Allan once lived.

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From: Philadelphia Weekly
Date: 20040616
Author:Anonymous

In most museums they make you take off your backpack so you don't knock anything over. But the Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site isn't most museums. For one thing, it's the only surviving house of the five that Poe lived in during his six years in Philadelphia. For another, you couldn't knock anything over if you tried. The Poe House, as it's commonly called, doesn't have anything in it at all.

The house has been empty since it was made part of the National Park Service in 1978, due to a lack of evidence of the kind of furnishings it might have held. But barren as it now is, the house at ...

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