Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House faces a funding crisis that could shut it down.
"The long-time curator of Baltimore's Edgar Allan Poe House says the museum could be forced to close if city officials stick to their insistence that it be well on the road to self-sufficiency by July of next year.
Baltimore officials � who last summer cut the Poe House's funding � have ordered the city's Committee for Historic & Architectural Preservation (CHAP) to settle on a plan to operate the museum without using public funds. The plan must be in place by July 2012."
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