Wender·Vista
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Bronx
shown on ceramic, 12-inch tileNew York
in Poe Park, at the Grand Concourse and Kingsbridge Road in the Bronx

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Bronx

— — the small white house where Annabel Lee was written.

— Where it lives

Not only on a wall.

A small tile on the nightstand catching the morning. A larger one above the fire. Yours, wherever you spend the slow hours.
— On the nightstand, a 6-inch on a walnut stand
— Among the books, a 6-inch leaning into the spines
— Beside the kettle, a 12-inch propped
— Down a quiet hall, an 18-inch floating off the wall
— Above the fire, the 24-inch in a walnut surround
— a note from the studio

“The Poe Cottage is a small white clapboard farmhouse, built around 1812, now lifted just above the lawn of Poe Park at the Grand Concourse and East Kingsbridge Road. Edgar Allan Poe rented it for one hundred dollars a year and lived there from 1846 until his death in 1849. His wife Virginia died of tuberculosis in the downstairs bedroom in January 1847. Annabel Lee, The Bells, and Eureka were written under this roof. The Bronx County Historical Society keeps it open as a museum. — from the studio

from the studio
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Bronx
— bring it home

Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Bronx, on ceramic.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.

What kind of piece?
One tile — square or rectangle.
How big?
the popular one — counter, shelf, nightstand
6 × 6 in · 15 cm · 1.6 lb
Surface finish
A clear glossy finish — the artwork reads as if under resin. Ideal for show-pieces and framed wall art.
How it sits
A hidden cleat — sits ¼″ proud of the wall.
$58
Hand-finished and shipped from our studio at the foot of the Smokies. On your wall in about ten days.
— size
6 × 6 in
15 cm
— weighs
1.6 lb
solid in the hand
— surface
ceramic, hand-finished
art rests beneath a thin glossy finish
— from
Knoxville, TN
our family studio, at the foot of the Smokies
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— about Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Bronx

The place, in three passes.

A little of what's known, in case you fall down the rabbit hole — or want to go see it yourself.
— the place

The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage is a small wood-frame farmhouse built around 1812 by John Wheeler, a Westchester cooper, on what was then open Bronx farmland. Poe rented it in the spring of 1846 for one hundred dollars a year and lived there with his wife Virginia and her mother Maria Clemm until his death in 1849. The cottage was moved across Kingsbridge Road in 1913 into the newly created Poe Park, where it still stands. It is owned by the City of New York and operated as a museum by the Bronx County Historical Society.

— the year

Poe wrote three of his last major works under this roof: Annabel Lee, The Bells, and the long cosmological prose poem Eureka, published in 1848. His wife Virginia Clemm Poe died of tuberculosis in the downstairs bedroom on January 30, 1847, at age twenty-four. Poe himself died in Baltimore in October 1849. The cottage and Poe Park were dedicated in 1913, the year the building was rolled across Kingsbridge Road to its present site. A statue of Poe by sculptor Ivan Mestrovic stands nearby in the park.

— the visit

The cottage is open Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., with a small admission charge collected by the Bronx County Historical Society; hours can shift seasonally so call ahead. The site sits in Poe Park on the Grand Concourse at East Kingsbridge Road, two blocks from the Kingsbridge Road station on the B and D subway lines. The Poe Park Visitor Center, a separate modern building on the park's east edge, opened in 2011.

— where
United States · Fordham, The Bronx, New York City
— within
Poe Park
— position
40.8656° N · 73.8943° W
— the neighborhood

What's nearby.

A handful of named places within an hour's walk or short drive. Some we've already painted; some we will.
at the lake
Poe Park Visitor Center
2011 visitor centre
2 km E
Fordham University Rose Hill
university campus
3 km E
New York Botanical Garden
botanical garden
at the lake
Grand Concourse
Bronx boulevard
N
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Bronx
Poe Park Visitor Center
Fordham University Rose Hill
New York Botanical Garden
Grand Concourse
— common questions

What people ask.

A few questions we get about Edgar Allan Poe Cottage Bronx — and about bringing the piece home.
— about the place

The cottage sits in Poe Park at the Grand Concourse and East Kingsbridge Road in the Fordham section of the Bronx, New York City. It is two blocks from the Kingsbridge Road station on the B and D subway lines.

Edgar Allan Poe rented the cottage in the spring of 1846 for one hundred dollars a year and lived there with his wife Virginia and her mother Maria Clemm until his death in October 1849. Virginia died there in January 1847.

Poe wrote three of his last major works under this roof: the poem Annabel Lee, the poem The Bells, and the long cosmological prose poem Eureka, which was published in 1848. All three were written in the final years of his life.

The cottage is owned by the City of New York through NYC Parks and operated as a museum by the Bronx County Historical Society. The building was moved across Kingsbridge Road in 1913 into the newly created Poe Park.

Public hours are generally Thursday and Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., with a small admission charge. Hours can shift seasonally; call the Bronx County Historical Society to confirm.

— about the piece in your home

It has been a meaningful gift for many of our customers who teach or read Poe. The small white cottage is the actual house where Annabel Lee was written. A Small or Keepsake on a desk works well.

The plain clapboard farmhouse and the surrounding park sit well in literary studies, library walls, traditional Federal interiors, and quieter Cottage-modern rooms. The image reads as historical rather than decorative.

Above a standard sofa, the single Large reads well. For a study or library wall, the Medium is often the right scale. The 4-tile Mural opens the park around the cottage if you want a wider piece.

Yes. Order the Dura Satin or Matte finish for any wet or high-touch room. Both are scratch-resistant and clean with a microfibre cloth and water. The Glossy finish is for framed wall art in living rooms and offices.

A microfibre cloth and water. No abrasives, no ammonia, no solvent cleaners. The colour lives in the ceramic surface and will not lift with normal cleaning over the life of the tile.

Yes. Every WenderVista piece is original to our studio in Knoxville, Tennessee, curated by Reid Wender. We do not license imagery in or out. The work ships only through Wender Studios and our authorised retail partners.

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