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