The Edgar House

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138-foot, 11-story residential building completed in 1923 as an office building. Designed by Benjamin Wistar Morris III for the Evening Mirror newspaper, it was re-named after Edgar Allen Poe when converted to condominiums. Poe's famous "The Raven" was first published with Poe’s name in The Evening Mirror where Poe worked as a critic.

The building has a 2-story limestone base with a recessed entry near the left end of the Ann Street facade. The rest of the ground floor consists of storefronts. At the 2nd floor on Ann Street, there are four bays of triple-windows framed in black metal with molded dentiled lintels, and a single stone-framed window above the entrance. On Fulton Street, one wide bay of windows spans almost the whole facade, sitting above an ornate cast-iron panel of foliate patterns. The base of both elevations is capped by a dentiled stone cornice.

The upper floors are clad in tan brick, with four bays of paired windows and a single window at the left side on Ann Street, and two bays of paired windows flanking a single center window on Fulton Street. A stone band course separates the 3rd & 4th floors. The windows all have stone sills and brick headers. A corbelled cornice tops the 9th floor, and another cornice caps the main roof line at the 10th floor. There is a recessed penthouse level above, and additionally, the far left side of the Ann Street elevation extends up to the 11th floor as well. A black iron fire escape runs down the Ann Street facade. The ground floor is occupied by Penguini menswear, and African American Art Framing.