The Old Stone House — Edgar Allan Poe Museum

The Old Stone House, built ca. 1737, is the oldest structure in Richmond and one of the few buildings that survived Benedict Arnold's January 1781 raid, which burned much of the town. The building gives Richmond visitors their most direct physical connection to the Revolutionary-era city. Now the Edgar Allan Poe Museum (Poe was born in Richmond in 1809), the house preserves the physical scale and construction of 18th-century Richmond and is a useful anchor for understanding what Arnold's troops encountered and destroyed during the 1781 British raid.