Addresses

LIST OF ADDRESSES FOR WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, 1866-1920

Compiled by Elif S. Armbruster, PhD

1866-1871	Buys and lives at 41 Sacramento Street, Cambridge, MA
1871-1873	Rents 3 Berkeley Street, Cambridge, MA
1873-1877	Builds and lives at 37 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA
1878-end 1881	Builds and leases Redtop, Belmont, MA
January-July 1882	Rents 16 Louisburg Square, Boston, MA
July 1882-July 1883	One year tour in Europe
August 1883-August 1884	Rents 4 Louisburg Square, Boston, MA
August 1884-May 1887	Buys and lives at 302 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
May-September 1887	Stays in a hotel in Lake George, NY
November 1887-February 1888	Hotel stay in Buffalo, NY
March-August 1888	Rents an apartment on Ninth Street in New York City for six months
August 1888-November 1888	Stays in a hotel on West 23 rd Street for four months
November 1888	Rents an apartment at 330 East 17 th Street, New York City
May-December 1889	Rents Brooks Place, Belmont, MA
December 30, 1889-November 1891	Rents an apartment on Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
December 1891-May 1892	Rents an apartment at 241 East 17 th Street, New York City
May 1892	Rents an apartment at 40 West 59 th Street, New York City
November 1896	Rents an apartment at 115 East 16 th Street, New York City
Fall 1897	Returns to a different apartment at 40 West 59 th Street, New York City
Spring-Summer 1900	Rents summer house in Annisquam, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
October 1900	Rents the apartment at 115 East 16 th Street, New York City
March 1901	Purchases an apartment at 38 East 73 rd Street, New York City; sells it about six months later in the fall of 1901
Summer 1901	Rents summer house, “Shagbark,” in York Harbor, Maine
September 1901	Begins renting an apartment at 48 West 59 th Street, New York City
March 1902	Buys the summer house in Kittery Point, Maine
Spring 1902	Buys townhouse at West 82 nd Street, New York City, as an investment
February 1904-April 1905	European tour with wife Elinor and daughter Mildred (“Pilla”)
April 1905	Moves to the Hotel Ramon, 340 West 57 th Street, New York City
Summer 1905	Kittery Point
October 1905	Moves to the Burlington Hotel, “a family hotel,” at 10 West 30 th Street, between Broadway and Sixth Avenue, New York City
March-May 1906	Hotel Regent, Broadway and West 70 th Street, New York City
Summer 1906	Kittery Point
October 1906	Stays one week at the Oxford Hotel, New York City
October 1906	Kittery Point
November 1906-June 1907	Hotel Regent, New York City
June 1907-December 1907	Kittery Point
January-June 1908	European tour with Elinor and daughter Pilla
May 1908-October 1908	Kittery Point
November 1908-January 1909	Stays at Stratford House, 11 East 32 nd Street, and at the Burlington Hotel, 10 West 30 th Street, New York City
January 1909	Moves into a twelve-room apartment at 130 West 57 th Street, New York City which Howells owns until his death in 1920
May 6, 1910	Elinor Mead Howells dies; Howells leases the West 57 th Street apartment and moves to a hotel
July 1911-December 1911	European tour with Pilla
February 1912	House at 37 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, is sold
Summer 1912	Returns to “Shagbark” in York Harbor, Maine (son John occupies Kittery Point house after Elinor’s death)
July 1913-September 1913	European tour with Pilla
Summers 1914-1919	York Harbor, Maine
Winters 1914-1919	Spends several months each winter in St. Augustine, FL, or Savannah, GA, with Pilla
May 11, 1920	William Dean Howells dies in a rented apartment in the Saint Hubert Hotel on West 57 th Street, New York City

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