Both Great Grandmothers once owned taverns in Baltimore, Maryland 

one on Wolfe Street and one on Lombard Street

This area known as Fells Point

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     Having visited Edgar Allan Poe’s gravesite at Westminster Hall and Burial Ground on several occasions plus knowing my great grandmothers both owned taverns near there I asked my mother where the taverns were located.  

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     “One was on Wolfe Street and one on Lombard Street they competed with one another for patrons” Was her response. So the discovery was to begin.  After grabbing a map and allowing her to guide me through the ‘old neighborhood of Fells Point’.   Viewing this area and doing a little research it became clear that Edgar Allan Poe frequented this section of Baltimore.  In fact the bench he was found on just prior to his death was on the same block, perhaps just outside of one of the taverns formally owned by my family.  Both an amazing and interesting piece of family history.

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Gunner's Hall (a tavern and hotel) located on the north side of Lombard Street in Baltimore, Maryland, East Lombard Street in 1849. It also served as 4th Ward polling place an election in October 1849, the same election during which Edgar Allan Poe was found in a state of confusion. 

• No. 44 East Lombard Street (demolished) 

• Lombard Street 

• Baltimore, Maryland 

• On the north side of Lombard Street, between High Street and Exeter Street. 

• A hotel and tavern that served as a voting location on Election Day. 

• Significance:

• Gunner's Hall is famous as the location where Edgar Allan Poe was found in a disoriented state on October 3, 1849, before being taken to Washington College Hospital, where he died a few days later.