Mencken lived in an apartment at 704 Cathedral Street for five years with his wife, nee Sara Haardt. The third floor apartment鈥檚 east windows faced Mount Vernon Place, and the inside was decorated with a distinctly Victorian style. Marion Elizabeth鈥

Edgar Allan Poe, writer, poet, inventor of detective fiction, is probably most famous for his poem 鈥淭he Raven.鈥 He spent time in Baltimore off and on through his entire life. Though born in Boston, he first arrived in Baltimore on a family visit to鈥