Friday, June 26, 2015

Feature Friday: 10 American Authors' Homes Worth Visiting

This post gave me some serious wanderlust.  I so badly want to visit so many of these homes.  Especially Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Too bad none of them are anywhere close to where I live!  
Click over to read the full article, including more information, history and highlights of each author's home.
From Paste Magazine:
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1. Edith Wharton and The Mount
Location: Lenox, Massachusetts
Website: www.edithwharton.org
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2. The Mark Twain House & Museum
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Website: www.marktwainhouse.org
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Photo courtesy of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center.
3. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Location: Hartford, Connecticut
Website: www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org
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4. The Emily Dickinson Museum and The Homestead
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Website: www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org
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5. The Eudora Welty House
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Website: eudorawelty.org
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6. William Faulkner and Rowan Oak
Location: Oxford, Mississippi
Website: www.rowanoak.com
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Photo courtesy of Sarah Becker Lillard Photography.
7. Frances Parkinson Keyes and the Beauregard-Keyes House
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Website: www.bkhouse.org
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8. Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum
Location: Mansfield, Missouri
Website: www.lauraingallswilderhome.com
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9. Edgar Allen Poe and the Poe Cottage
Location: The Bronx, New York
Website: www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org
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Photo of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne’s writing scratched on a windowpane courtesy of The Trustees of Reservations.
10. The Old Manse, Home to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody Hawthorne
Location: Concord, Massachusetts
Website: www.thetrustees.org

2 comments:

  1. These look very cool. Another place that would fit nicely in the tour is the Gene Stratton Porter house. She wrote Girl of the Limberlost, Freckles and other wonderfully sweet novels. I'm glad Kelli pointed me in your direction!

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    1. Bookmark DragonJune 29, 2015 at 9:14 AM

      Thanks, Vicki! I've never been to the Gene Stratton Porter house, I'll have to look it up! Thanks for the rec!

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