Edward Estlin (e. e.) Cummings Home
E. E. Cummings lived at 4 Patchen Place from 1923 until 1962. Djuna Barnes was a neighbor and some writers who visited that house included T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, Dylan Thomas, and others.
E. E. Cummings lived at 4 Patchen Place from 1923 until 1962. Djuna Barnes was a neighbor and some writers who visited that house included T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, Dylan Thomas, and others.
The journalist and radical leader, John Reed, lived at 1 Patchin Place with his wife, Louise Bryant, in 1916.
Patchin Place is a gated cul-de-sac located off 10th Street between Greenwich Avenue and the Avenue of the Americas (Sixth Avenue) in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York. Its ten 3-story brick row houses, said to have been originally built as housing for the Basque staff of the nearby Brevoort House hotel, have … Continued
Sinclair Lewis moved to 37 West 10th Street, Manhattan, New York, in 1928, with his wife, Dorothy Thompson. They lived in the house for less than two years.
An apartment at 14 West 10th Street, Manhattan, New York, was rented by Mark Twain and his family in 1900.
Located in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, the Albert Hotel was home for Thomas Wolfe from 1923 until 1926. The hotel was named for an earlier resident, artist Albert Ryder. From its opening in 1887, the Albert was home, hotel and hang-out for generations of artists, activists, writers, poets and musicians. The Hotel Albert was … Continued
The 10 story Jewish Daily Forward Building was erected at 173-175 East Broadway between Rutgers and Jefferson Streets in 1911-1912 by architect George A. Boehm. It was home to many Jewish social and benevolent organizations and the “Jewish Daily Forward” which was, in the 1920s, the largest Yiddish daily newspaper in the world. Editor of … Continued
Pete’s Tavern, previously known as Healy’s Cafe, was a favorite hang out of O. Henry and Ludwig Bemelmans. A plaque placed on the front of Pete’s Tavern in 1999 by the Friends of the Library Association honors O. Henry and Ludwig Bemelmans.
Herman Melville lived at 104 East 26th Street from 1863 until his death in 1891. The house is gone, but a plaque on the 26th Street side of the building at 357 Park Avenue South remains to his honor.
Writers’ homes located on St. Luke’s Place included Theodore Dreiser’s, Marianne Moore’s, and Sherwood Anderson’s.