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Edgar Allan Poe's former NYC cottage to undergo renovation, get new visitor center
From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20080705
Author:DEEPTI HAJELA
Edgar Allan Poe lived his last years and wrote some of his classic pieces in a cottage in the Bronx section of New York.
Long a tourist attraction, the small five-room building will soon give visitors an even better sense of Poe's final years with a planned renovation and the construction of a visitor center.
"This is going to be the first complete restoration," said Abigail Lootens, director of communications for the Historic House Trust.
Work is expected to start in the spring and last a year. The cottage will be closed to the public during the work and cost ...
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