Location Type: Literary Site

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.

Truman Capote lived at 870 United Nations Plaza, New York, New York, during the last years of his life.

It is believed that in 1902, O. Henry’s daughter lived in Grove Court, located on Grove Street between Bedford and Hudson Streets, and that the writer’s famous short story, “The Last Leaf” was conceived here.

E. B. White and his wife, Katharine Sergeant, lived at Turtle Bay Gardens at 239 East 48th Street and at 229 East 48th Street during the 1940s and 1950s. Dorothy Thompson also lived at Turtle Bay Gardens at 237 East 48th Street from 1941 until 1957.

Clement Clarke Moore lived at St. Luke-in-the-Fields, then known as St. Luke’s Episcopal Chapel of Trinity Parish and was the first warden and vestryman of the newly built St. Luke’s Episcopal Chapel of Trinity Parish.

Thomas Paine lived the last month of his life in a house at 59 Grove Street until June 8, 1809 when he died. Today, a house built on the site in 1839 bears a plaque containing a quote from Thomas Paine.

The Federal Hall National Memorial is located at 26 Wall Street the site of New York City’s 18th-century City Hall. Here John Peter Zenger was jailed, tried, and acquitted of libel for exposing government corruption in his newspaper.

In 1981, New York City Landmark status was given to the Harlem home of Langston Hughes at 20 East 127th Street by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and 127th Street was renamed Langston Hughes Place. The Langston Hughes House was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982.