Poe's Life in Boston

BOSTON AUTHORS' CLUB
a tablet memorializing the Boston birth of Edgar Allan Poe
unveiled January 19, 1924

In 1913, the City of Boston named the intersection of Broadway and Carver Street (now Charles Street South) Edgar Allan Poe Square. A few years later, however, it was renamed for a World War I hero named Matthew Emmett Ryan. On Poe's birthday in 1924, the Boston Authors' Club unveiled this tablet nearby. The tablet has been lost since the late 1950s when Poe's birthplace at 62 Carver Street was also torn down.

The Raymond Biswanger Slide Collection of Literary Landscapes at the University of Pennsylvania