department, Thomas J. Stosur, said that with the city facing a large budget gap last year, the subsidy cut was unavoidable. "Everybody was under the gun to focus more on core services," he said in a telephone interview.
The city has continued to provide a $55,500 grant to the Babe Ruth Birthplace Museum, which is more centrally located and draws six times as many visitors a year as the Poe House.
For decades Baltimore has prized its association with Poe, a master of the macabre who inspired the name for the city's National Football League team, the Ravens.
from The New York Times: Fiscal Woe Haunting Baltimore Poe House
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