Edgar Allan Poe House (Lenoir, North Carolina)
The Edgar Allan Poe House is a historic home located at Lenoir, Caldwell County, North Carolina USA.
Edgar Allan Poe House | |
 Edgar Allan Poe House, 506 Main St. NW, Lenoir, North Carolina | |
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| Location | 506 Main St. NW, Lenoir, North Carolina |
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| Coordinates | 35°55′5″N 81°32′28″W |
| Built | 1905 |
| Built by | Poe, Edgar Allan |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 01000514[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 18, 2001 |
The home was built in 1905, and is a two-story Dutch Colonial Revival style house with a gambrel roof and wraparound porch. It was built by a businessman named Edgar Allan Poe, not the famous writer. Lenoir's Poe was a prominent citizen, a builder and an early mayor of Lenoir, which was founded in 1841. It was during an industrial boom of the 1890s that Poe, a native of Dallas, N.C., came to Lenoir in 1893. On Oct. 28, 1897, Poe married Eugenia Maude Miller, who was from a well-known family in Caldwell County. The Poes' first house was on Scruggs Street. In 1905, two years after their second child was born, the Poes bought a half acre on Main Street and began construction of their second home. The house remained in the ownership of the Poe family until August 1999.[2] The home was restored by Joel Kincaid.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[1]
See also
References
- "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- Sybil Argintar Bowers and Amanda Blosser (December 2000). "Edgar Allan Poe House" (pdf). National Register of Historic Places - Nomination and Inventory. North Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. Retrieved 2014-08-01.
