F Scott Fitzgerald Home, Buffalo
F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in Buffalo for nearly a decade. From 1898 until 1899 he lived at 140 North Street.
Location Type: Literary Site
Frontier House
Charles Dickens was a famous visitor to the Frontier House in Lewiston, New York. James Fenimore Cooper and Mark Twain also stayed here.
New York State Writers Institute (Literary Site)
The New York State Writers Institute, is one of America’s premiere sites for celebrating the art of the written word. Numerous and diverse programs meet the challenge of the original mandate by providing the broadest possible educational base for students of writing, access to some of our greatest living authors for serious readers of literature, … Continued
F Scott Fitzgerald Home
F. Scott Fitzgerald lived in Syracuse, New York, on James Street and East Willow Street. (Not open to the public).
SUNY at Binghamton, Creative Writing Program
Creative Writing Program, State University College of New York at Binghamton, supports an array of events for students, the campus community, and the surrounding area. Opportunities range from nationally and internationally acclaimed writers reading their own work and offering writing workshops, to well-known editors meeting to discuss the writing life, to a graduate student-run series … Continued
University At Buffalo / The Poetics Program
The Poetics Program, State University of New York at Buffalo, is a center for the study of poetry and poetics, with many national and international scholars and poets visiting for short-term and postdoctoral residencies. The program also sponsors a wide range of poetry-related magazines and presses, both print and electronic. The activities of the program … Continued
Elizabeth Cady Stanton House, Johnstown
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s birthplace is located at Main and North Market Streets, Johnstown.
Glenmore Hotel
In 1923, Theodore Dreiser brought his future bride, Helen Richardson, to Big Moose Lake to research a murder that had taken place there in 1906; Dreiser and Richardson stayed at the Glenmore Hotel, the same hotel at which the murderer and his victim had stayed seventeen years earlier.
L Frank Baum Home and Yellow Brick Road
L. Frank Baum was born and lived in Chittenango, New York. His birth home is uncertain, but a marker is said to indicate the general area. There is a Yellow Brick Road in Chittenango.
Old Court House
In the 1830s and 1840s, James Fenimore Cooper traveled to the Old Court House in the town of Fonda to bring (and win) libel suits against James Watson Webb, the New York Enquirer, and Thurlow Weed, Albany Evening Journal. http://www.nycourts.gov/publications/benchmarks/issue5/old-courthouse.shtml