National historic site · Philadelphia, Philadelphia County
Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site
The brick house where Edgar Allan Poe lived in the early 1840s, the only one of his city homes to survive, including a cellar that recalls his story The Black Cat.
What you will find
- Historic features
Make a day of it
Nearby
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National Constitution Center
A museum devoted to the U.S. Constitution on Independence Mall, with a stirring theater show and a hall of life-size bronze statues of the signers.
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African American Museum in Philadelphia
Opened for the 1976 Bicentennial, this pioneering museum explores African American history and culture, including the lives of the city's free Black community in the nation's first century.
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Betsy Ross House
The small colonial house associated with Betsy Ross, the upholsterer said to have sewn the first Stars and Stripes, with period rooms and a costumed interpreter.
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Elfreth's Alley
Often called the nation's oldest continuously inhabited residential street, a narrow cobbled lane of 18th-century brick rowhouses, with a small museum house open to visitors.
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Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History
Jewish life in America from the 1650s to the present, told through artifacts and personal stories at a Smithsonian affiliate on Independence Mall.
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Founded in 1805 as America's first art museum and school, showing American paintings and sculpture in Frank Furness's flamboyant 1876 building.
