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 |