Reputedly the oldest residential dwelling in Richmond, this modest house is now surrounded by the Shockoe Valley commercial district. Dendrochronology (tree ring dating) suggests that the house was built in 1754. The earliest records of the house date to 1783 in a city land tax book. Samuel Ege lived in the house and was a flour inspector.

The house features a hall and parlor plan with unevenly spaced openings and dormered gable roofs. The APVA saved the house in 1911. The small stone house is now a part of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum complex which contains a collection of items relating to the life and work of this famous American poet and storywriter