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Edgar Allan Poe House to Get Lifeline From Train Museum - Philanthropy Today - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Edgar Allan Poe House to Get Lifeline From Train Museum

October 4, 2012, 10:43 am

Baltimore’s Edgar Allan Poe House, threatened with closure by municipal budget cuts, will get a lifeline via a city-funded plan to enlist another local cultural institution to help promote the literary landmark, The Baltimore Sun writes.

The city’s Board of Estimates approved a proposal Wednesday to pay the B&O Railroad Museum $180,000 to put the Poe House on th