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34 Montagu Square is located in London.  It was here Beatles drummer Ringo Starr leased Flat 1 in 1965.  He and his wife lived here until July, when they moved to St. George's Hill.  Ringo retained the lease on the house and rented it to Paul M... (Read More)

A.A. Milne's home is on Mallord Street in London, England.  The creator of Winnie-The-Pooh lived here from 1919 to 1942. He was born Alan Alexander Milne in Kilburn, London on January 18, 1882.  He attended Westminster School and Trinity Colleg... (Read More)

Agatha Christie's home is on Creswell Place in London. The newly divorced author moved into this home in 1929 and immediately transformed the old stable it began life as into the cottage that we still see today. The later story Murder I... (Read More)

Agrippa d'Aubigné's home is located on Rue de l'Hotel-de-Ville in Geneva, Switzerland.  After a lifetime of adventure, the French poet finally lost favor with the court after his work Histoire universelle, ... (Read More)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson's home is located on Upper Belgrave Street in London.  The Poet Laureate lived here briefly in 1880-1881.  At the age of 32 he experienced his first success with the publication of his collection PoemsRead More)

The Ambassador Hotel is located on Neuer Markt in Vienna, Austria.  It stands on the site of a former concert hall known as the Mehlgrube, built in 1697, which saw the likes of Beethoven and Mozart conducting performances.  From 1866 ... (Read More)

Amerigo Vespucci's home is on Borgo Ognissanti in Florence, Italy.  He was born here on March 9, 1454, to Anastasio Vespucci and Lisabetta Mini.  Vespucci was educated by his uncle in Florence, but afterwards chose to remain in th... (Read More)

Anton Bruckner's home is on Prinz-Eugen-Straße at the Upper Belvedere Palace in Vienna, Austria. The famed composer moved to Vienna in 1868 and first worked at the Vienna Conservatory, then at the Vienna University in 1875.  Thro... (Read More)

Antonin Dvorák's home in Vienna is located on Wiedner Hauptstraße.  Although the Czech composer gained worldwide fame he remained mostly in Prague throughout his career.  He did travel throughout Europe for a time, fr... (Read More)

Antonio Salieri's home site is on Spiegelgasse in Vienna, Austria.  The Italian composer, conductor was born in Legnano in 1750.  He found himself a position with the Habsburgs and spent most of his adult life in Vienna.  He ... (Read More)

Antonio Vivaldi's home site is on Philharmonikerstraße in Vienna, Austria.  It was here the noted Baroque composer moved in 1740, possibly at the behest of Emperor Charles VI, whom he had met several years earlier and who had tak... (Read More)

Arthur Conan Doyle's home is on Tennison Road in London. The famed author, and creator of Sherlock Holmes, moved here in London, in 1891, soon after quitting his opthalmology practice, to take up writing full time.  In December of 1893  The Str... (Read More)

Arthur Conan Doyle's home is on Upper Wimpole Street in London. The creator of Sherlock Holmes opened his opthalmology practice while living here, at 2 Upper Wimpole, then known as 2 Devonshire Place.  He was not only an author but also a doct... (Read More)

Audrey Hepburn's home is located on Route de Lully in Tolochenaz, Switzerland.  The Oscar winning actress moved here in 1963 with her husband, actor Mel Ferrer.  Her home, known as La Paisible, was a quiet retreat from th... (Read More)

Beau Brummell's home is on Chesterfield Street in London.  A leader in fashion, and friend of the Prince Regent, soon to become King George IV, George "Beau" Brummel was credited with introducing the Men's Suit.  Forgoing other extravagances, h... (Read More)

Beethoven's death house site is on Schwarzspanierstraße in Vienna, Austria.  It was here, in a house which once stood on this site, that the famed compser died on March 26, 1827.  In declining health for several years he too... (Read More)

Beethoven's Pasqualatihais is located on Mölker Bastei in Vienna, Austria.  It was here the famed composer lived, off and on, from 1804 to 1815.  The house is named after it's owner, and friend of Beethoven, Baron Johann ... (Read More)

Benjamin Franklin's home is on Craven Street in London. He moved to the city in 1757 and lodged with Margaret Stevenson here at her boarding house in what is now called The Benjamin Franklin House. He was sent by the Pennsylvania Assembly s... (Read More)

Ben Franklin's Paris home is on Rue Jacob.  It was here he lived while negotiations for The Treaty of Paris were undertaken. In 1783 Franklin was one of the American Commissioners in France, along with John Jay and John Adams, who nego... (Read More)

Benny Hill's home is on Queen's Gate in London.  The famed television comedian lived here from 1960 to 1986.  He began his career after World War II, working in radio, and later in television, with moderate success.  Afte... (Read More)

Bob Marley's home is on Ridgmount Gardens in London.  It was here in this apartment that the reggae icon lived during his first visit to the city.  He found himself here in early 1972, along with his group the Wailers, in support ... (Read More)

Boris Karloff's home is at the intersection of Tunbridge Lane and Church Lane in Liphook, Hampshire, England. The horror film icon  returned to England in 1965 after a five month stay in California, following film work and minor surger... (Read More)

Bram Stoker's birthplace is on Marino Crescent in Dublin, Ireland.  It was here, in the neighborhood of Clontarf, the future Dracula author was born on November 8, 1847.  He was the third of seven children born to Abraham... (Read More)

Caerlaverock Castle is located in Caerlaverock, Dumfries, Scotland on the Solway Firth.  The estate was the family seat of the Maxwell family from 1220... (Read More)

Casa Buonarroti is located on Via Ghibellina in Florence, Italy.  It was here that the famed artist lived, in his family home, on property that has now been turned into a museum devoted to his works.  The original structures which occ... (Read More)

Casanova's home is located on Rue de Tournon in Paris, France.  The famed adventurer lived here from 1757 to 1759.  Afte rhis escape from the Leads in Venice he made his way to Paris, where he took up rooms in this hotel.  Se... (Read More)

Castel Saint’Angelo, the former Mausoleum of Hadrian, is located on the right bank of the Tiber River, next to the Ponte Sant’Ang... (Read More)

Charles Dickens' home is in Gloucester Place in London.  For a brief period of time, from February to June 1864, the famed author took up residence in this house.  It was while living here that Dickens received word that his son, ... (Read More)

Charles Dickens' home site is located on Marylebone Road in London.  The famed author lived in a house on this site from 1839 to 1851.  With the success of Oliver Twist Dickens looked for some grander lodgings for him and... (Read More)

Charles Dickens' home site is located at Tavistock Square in London.  The famed author and his family moved into an eighteen room residence at this site in November of 1851 and remained until 1860.  Although relations between Dick... (Read More)

The Charles Dickens Museum is located on Doughty Street in London.  It is the only museum in the city devoted to the famed author.  Dickens moved into this Georgian house in March 1837, shortly after marrying his wife, Catherine. ... (Read More)

Charlie Chaplin's home is on Route de Fenil in Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland.  It was here the famed comic moved in 1953, and spent the last twenty-four years of his life, until his death in 1977.  1952 was a pivitol year for Cha... (Read More)

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Château de Rolle is located on Place des Tilleuls, along Lake Geneva, in Rolle, Switzerland.  The castle dates back to the early 1260's and was intended to serve as protection for a planned city by the Lords of Mont.  Compet... (Read More)

Château de Vufflens is located on Chemin de la Balle in Vufflens-le-Château, Switzerland.  It sits on land which has housed a fortress since the early 1100's.  The current castle was constructed by Henri de C... (Read More)

Constanze Mozart's home is on Alter Markt in Salzburg, Austria.  It was here the former wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived from 1820 to 1826.  In the years after Mozart's death in 1791 Constanze attempted to publish all of ... (Read More)

Dante Alighieri's birthplace site is located on Via Santa Margherita in Florence, Italy.  It was here the famed Italian poet was born in 1265.  Not much is known of his early life and what is has been ascertained from his writings... (Read More)

The Deutschordenskirche, or The Church of the Teutonic Order, is located on Singerstraße in Vienna, Austria.  The Gothic church was built sometime between 1326 and 1375 and consecrated to St. Elisabeth of Hungary.  It is the pri... (Read More)

The Doge's Palace, or Ducal Palace, is located in Piazza San Marco in Venice, Italy, and served as the home and seat of power of the Dukes of Venice.  The palace dates back to the 9th century, but was destroyed by fire in the 10th cent... (Read More)

Doune Castle is located on Castle Hill in Doune, Scotland on a promontory where the River Teith and the Ardoch Burn meet.  The word doune means ancient stronghold and, although the current castle dates to some time after 1381, there is rea... (Read More)

Dryburgh Abbey is located in Dryburgh, Melrose, Scotland, along the River Tweed.  The abbey was founded in 1150 by Hugh de Moreville, Constable of Scot... (Read More)

Dunfermline Abbey and Palace is located on St. Margaret Street in Dunfermline, Scotland.  The history of the abbey is foggy at best, but its origins li... (Read More)

Dunnottar Castle is located off the Burn of Halymyres in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.  Due to Its position, situated atop the rock of Dunnottar... (Read More)

Edgar Degas' home is on Boulevard de Clichy in Paris, France.  It was here the famed French Impressionist lived from 1912 to 1917.  His later years were not pleasant ones, as blindness and depression took their toll on his well be... (Read More)

Edinburgh Castle lies on the western edge of The Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.   Castle Rock, upon which th... (Read More)

Eilean Donan Castle is located in Dornie, Kyle of Lochalsh, Scotland, at the intersection of Loch Long, Loch Duich and Loch Alsh.  Although the strategically positioned island has been inhabited by a fortress since at least the Iron Age, t... (Read More)

Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning's home is on Piazza San Felice in Florence, Italy.  Casa Guidi was the Browning's home for fourteen years, from 1847 to 1861.  Their only child, Robert Wiedeman Barrett Browning, was ... (Read More)

Ernest Hemingway's home is on Rue de Cardinal-Lemoine in Paris, France.  It was the first apartment the noted author rented in Paris.  He and his wife, Hadley, moved into a two room flat on the fourth floor of this building in Jan... (Read More)

Florence Stoker's home is in Studio Place, formerly Kinnerton Studion, in Knightsbridge, London.  The widow of author Bram Stoker moved here in 1914, two years after her husband's death.  It was from this home that Florence fo... (Read More)

Franz Liszt's home is on Rue Etienne-Dumont in Geneva, Switzerland.  The young composer enjoyed a renewed spurt of creative energy in 1832 after attending a concert featuring violin virtuoso Niccolo Paganini and began taking steps to e... (Read More)

Franz Schubert's birthplace is located on Nussdorfer Straße in Vienna, Austria.  It was here, on January 31, 1797, that the famed composer was born, the twelfth child of Franz Theodor Florian Schubert and Maria Elisabeth Kat... (Read More)

Franz Schubert's home is on Spiegelgasse in Vienna, Austria.  The noted composer lived here, in the home of his friend Franz von Schober, from 1822 to 1823.  It was here that he worked on his infamous Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, al... (Read More)

Frederic Chopin's home site is on Kohlmarkt in Vienna, Austria.  After several years of successful performances throughout Europe, the famed Polish composer/pianist finally left home for good in November of 1830, to make his way in the... (Read More)

Fritz Lang's home is on Zeltgasse in Vienna, Austria.  Here the famed film director lived from 1909 to 1919, although he spent much of his time abroad.  He travelled extensively starting in 1910, spending time in Paris, before ret... (Read More)

Frohnburg Palace, locally known as Schloss Frohnburg, is located on the Hellbrunner Allee in Salzburg, Austria. The Baroque palace was built by Prince Archbishop Max Gandolf in 1680 as a summer home originally called Schloss Grafenau. In later ... (Read More)

George Eliot's home is located on Rue de la Pélisserie in Geneva, Switzerland.  It was here the future author lived from October 1949 to March 1850.  Still several years away from using her famous pen name, the 29 year... (Read More)

George Harrison's birthplace is on Arnold Grove in Liverpool, England.  The future singer/songwriter and member of the Beatles was born here on February 23, 1943.  He was the youngest of four children born to Harold Hargreaves and... (Read More)

George Harrison's home is on Upton Green in Liverpool, England.  The future member of the Beatles moved here with his family in 1949.  He would live here during the most formative years of his life.  From 1954 to 1959 he atte... (Read More)

Gertrude Stein's home is on rue de Fleurus in Paris, France.  It was here the noted author/art collector lived from 1903 to 1938, first with her brother, Leo Stein, from 1903 to 1914, then with her life partner, Alice B. Toklas, from 1910 to 19... (Read More)

Gian Lorenzo Bernini's home is on Via Liberiana in Rome.  The Baroque sculptor lived here from 1606 to 1642.  Born in Naples in 1598, his family soon mved to Rome, where he would spend the rest of his life.  His artistic tale... (Read More)

Glamis Castle is located in Glamis, Angus, Scotland.  Originally built not for defensive purposes, but as a hunting lodge, the castle sits on low land in what was once a thick forest in the Angus countryside.  In 1372 the land was gra... (Read More)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's home is on Via del Corso in Rome, Italy. The German writer spent three months in this house, from October 1786 to February 1787, before beginning his noted Italian journey. Fame came early for Goethe with the no... (Read More)

The Grand Trianon is located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. The building sits on land once occupied by the village of Trianon. Purchased by King Louis XIV in 1668, the village was destroyed and a small chateau... (Read More)

H.G. Wells' home is on Hanover Terrace in London.  The famed author lived here from 1936 to 1946, the year he died. During his time here Wells lectured, visited America, and continued to write, producing his final novel You Can'... (Read More)

Hellbrunn Palace, also known as Schloss Hellbrunn, is located on Furstenweg in Salzburg, Austria. It was built between 1613 and 1615 for Prince Archbishop Markus Sittikus of Hohenems. Sittikus had been elected archbishop in 1612 after the arres... (Read More)

Hofburg Palace is located on Michaelerkuppel in Vienna, Austria.  From 1438 to 1918 it was the home and power center for the Habsburg dynasty, from Rudolph of Habsburg, through Frederick III, Maximilian I, Charles V, Leopold I, Maria There... (Read More)

Hohensalzburg Castle, also known as Festung Hohensalzburg, is located atop the Festungsberg, 1600 feet above the city of ... (Read More)

Hotel Angleterre is located on Place du Port, along Lake Geneva, in Lausanne, Switzerland.  Although long an established locale for visitors to the lake, its connection to a pair of literary refugees has brought the hotel its most lasting ... (Read More)

The Hotel Imperial is located on Kärntner Ring in Vienna, Austria.  It began life as the Palais Read More)

Hotel Jacob et d'Angleterre is located on Rue Jacob in Paris.  In this hotel in 1783, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams penned the treaty with the British that ended the Revolutionary War.  The trio moved down the s... (Read More)

The Hotel Metropole is located on Riva Degli Schiavoni in Venice, Italy.  There has been a structure on this site since at least 1500, and at one time incorporated both a chapel and a church.  It is said that Antonio Vivaldi worked at... (Read More)

The Hotel Sacher is located on Philharmonikerstraße in Vienna, Austria.  It was opened in 1876 by restaurateur Edouard Sacher, whose father, Franz Sacher, created the original Sacher-torte dessert in 1832.  The building sit... (Read More)

Igor Stravinsky's home is on Place Saint-Louis in Morges, Switzerland.  It was here the famed Russian composer lived from 1917 to 1920.  He first came to Switzerland in 1910, where he lived in a home in Clarens.  He and his f... (Read More)

Inveraray Castle is located off Dalmally Road in Inverary, Scotland, nestled between the River Aray and Loch Fyne.  It has been the ancestral home of t... (Read More)

J. M. Barrie's birthplace is located on Brechin Road in Kirriemuir, Scotland.  The noted author of Peter Pan was born here on May 9, 1860.  Barrie was the ninth child born to David Barrie, a weaver, and Margaret Ogilvy.&n... (Read More)

J.R.R. Tolkien's home is on Northmoor Rd. in Oxford, England.  This was the second home the famed author lived in on the street, having resided in the house next door at 22 Northmoor from 1926 to 1930.  Tolkien and his family move... (Read More)

J.R.R. Tolien's home is on Sandfield Rd. in Oxford, England.  It was here the famed author lived from 1953 to 1968.  By the time the author moved here in March of 1953, he had completed The Lord Of The Rings and was worki... (Read More)

Jane Austen's home is located on Henrietta Street in London.  It was here her brother Henry lived from 1813 to 1814, and where she visited him while in London, working on the publication of Mansfield Park.  Henry moved into the bu... (Read More)

Jane Austen's home is on College Street in Winchester, England.  It was here the famed novelist spent the last few weeks of her life.  She had begun feeling poorly in early 1816, with what is thought to have been Addison's Dis... (Read More)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's birthplace is located on Grand-Rue in Geneva, Switzerland.  It was here the future philospher and author was born on June 28, 1712.  His parents were Isaac Rousseau, a watchmaker, and Suzanne Bernard, from ... (Read More)

Jim Morrison's home is on Rue Beautreillis in Paris, France.  It was here he spent the last few months of his life. After completing work on the album L.A. Woman, The Doors frontman Jim Morrison returned to Paris on March... (Read More)

John Barrymore's home is on Cheyne Walk in London.  The famed actor rented this home from December, 1924 to April, 1925.  From 1922 to 1923 Barrymore starred in Hamlet on Broadway.  The show had a record breaking 101... (Read More)

John Burgoyne's home is on Hertford Street in London. It was here that 'Gentleman Johhny' spent the last years of his life as a respected playwright. He had commanded the British troops in Saratoga, New York during the Revolutionary... (Read More)

John Calvin's home site is located on Rue Jean-Calvin in Geneva, Switzerland.  It was in a house which once stood on this spot that the religious reformer lived the last twenty years of his life.  He was called to Geneva by the ci... (Read More)

John Lennon's home in Liverpool is on Newcastle Road.  It was here the future Beatles singer/songwriter spent the first five years of his life.  Lennon was born October 9, 1940, at the Liverpool Maternity Hospital to Julia and Alf... (Read More)

John Lennon's home is on Menlove Road in Liverpool, England.  It was here the future Beatle lived from 1945 to 1963.  After leaving his home on Newcastle Road Lennon moved into Mendips to live with his Aunt and Uncle, Mimi and Geo... (Read More)

John Paul Jones' home is on Rue de Tournon in Paris, France. The Scottish born naval hero lived his last days here.  After the Revolutionary War ended Jones found he was unemployed and set off for Russia, in the employ of Cat... (Read More)

Joseph Haydn's home is on Seilerstatte in Vienna, Austria.  The famed compser moved here after nearly 25 years working for Count Nikolaus Esterhazy, his greatest patron, in Eisenstadt.  When Esterhazy died in 1790 his son, Anton, ... (Read More)

Joseph Haydn's home is on Johannesgasse in Vienna, Austria.  After his first tour of London, from 1791 to 1792, the famed composer reportedly took up residence in apartments located at this site.  It is also noted that he met with... (Read More)

Joseph Haydn's home site is on Neuer Markt in Vienna, Austria.  Upon his return to Vienna from his second London trip, which lasted from 1794 to 1795,  the famed composer moved into a house known as the Hofobstlerisches Haus, whic... (Read More)

Joseph Mohr's birthplace is on Steingasse in Salzburg, Austria.  He was born here on December 11, 1792 to Anna Schoiberin and Franz Mohr.  His father deserted the family before he was born, leaving his unmarried mother to raise hi... (Read More)

The Keats-Shelley House is located at the Piazza di Spagna in Rome.  It was the final home of English born poet John Keats.  In 1820, when he had begun showing the serious effects of tuberculosis it was decided that he would trav... (Read More)

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh's home is on Christchurch Street in London.  In 1937 Olivier bought this home, Durham Cottage, in Chelsea as a retreat for him and his lover, Vivien Leigh.  Both were still married at the time and... (Read More)

Leopoldskron Palace is located on Leopoldskronstraße in Salzburg, Austria. The rococo palace dates to 1736, when it was built for Count Leopold Anton Eleutherius von Firmian, the Prince Archbishop of Salzburg. After the archbishop’s... (Read More)

The Loew Sanatorium is located on Mariannengasse in Vienna, Austria.  It was established by Heinrich Loew in 1859, and managed by his son Anton Loew beginning in 1874, eventually moving to the present building in 1882.  Anton ran the ... (Read More)

Luxembourg Palace is located on Rue de Vaugirard in Paris, France.  Work on the structure began in 1615 under the guidance of Marie de Médicis, the widow of Henry IV, and mother of Louis XIII.  Completed in 1625, the palace was... (Read More)

Maison de Victor Hugo is located in Place des Vosges in Paris, France.  The noted author lived here with his wife,  Adèle, from 1832 to 1848.  They lived on the second floor of this building, then called Hôtel de Roh... (Read More)

Maison Tavel is located on Rue du Puits-Saint-Pierre in Geneva, Switzerland.  Built in the 12th century, it is the oldest residential dwelling in the city.  The home was nearly destroyed by a fire in 1334, but was rebuilt by the ... (Read More)

Marco Polo's home is on Corte Prima del Milion in Venice, Italy.  The famed explorer was born in the city in 1254 and in 1271, along with his father and uncle, set off on what would become a 24 year journey through Asia.  Upo... (Read More)

Marie Curie's home is on Quai de Béthune in Paris, France.  The two-time Nobel Prize winning physicist lived here from 1912 to 1934.  In 1911 she was the subject of a love scandal involving another physicist named Paul Lang... (Read More)

Mary Pickford's birthplace site is on University Avenue in Toronto.  On April 8, 1892, the future silent screen superstar was born Gladys Louise Smith at a home that once stood near this spot, at 211 University Avenue.  Her parent... (Read More)

Melrose Abbey sits on Abbey Street in Melrose, Scotland.  The present day abbey was founded by David I in 1136 when he invited Cistercian monks from Ri... (Read More)

Mirabell Palace is located in Mirabellplatz in Salzburg, Austria. The Palace is a cultural heritage monument located in the Salzburg UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was originally known as Altenau Castle and built around 1606... (Read More)

The Montreux Palace Hotel is located on Avenue Claude Nobs in Montreux, Switzerland.  It dates back to 1837 and the construction of the original hotel which occupied this site, the Hotel du Cygne.  In 1881 the hotel was purchased by A... (Read More)

Mozart's death site is located on Rauhensteingasse in Vienna, Austria.  The famed composer lived in a house on this site from September, 1790 to December, 1791.  The last year of his life was a productive time for the young compos... (Read More)

Mozart's home in London is located on Ebury Street.  The child prodigy was brought here in 1764 by his father, Leopold, seeking to impress the English court the way they had impressed the European courts back on the continent.  Th... (Read More)

Mozart's home site is in Judenplatz in Vienna, Austria.  The famed composer lived in nearly tweny different buildings during his time in Vienna, but only three are still known to be standing.  This home in which he lived in 1783, ... (Read More)

The Mozart Wohnhaus is located on Makartplatz in Salzburg, Austria.  The Wohnhaus, or Residence, was the family home in Salzburg of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and his family from 1773 to 1787.  His father rented rooms in t... (Read More)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's home is in Domgasse in Vienna, Austria.  The famed composer lived here from September, 1784 to April, 1787.  It was here he would know the greatest success of his career.  In his two and a half years... (Read More)

The Mozart Geburtshaus is located on Geitreidegasse in Salzburg, Austria.  It is the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  The famous composer was born here on January 27, 1756.  The home was originally rented by his father, Le... (Read More)

Nannerl Mozart's home is on Universitatsplatz in Salzburg, Austria.  Born Maria Anna Mozart In Salzburg on July 30, 1751, she was the older sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  She accompanied her brother on his several European to... (Read More)

The Nicolas Flamel House is located on rue de Montmorency in Paris, France.  The noted scrivener and his wife, Perenelle, built this inn in 1407.  Today it is the oldest standing stone house in Paris.  At the time of its construc... (Read More)

Nikolai Gogol's home is on Via Sistina in Rome.  It was here the Russion author lived from 1838 to 1842.  Beginning in 1836 he embarked on an extended tour of Europe, visiting Germany, Switzerland, France and then Italy.  He ... (Read More)

Nonnberg Abbey is located on Nonnberggasse, along the eastern side of Festungsberg hill, in Salzburg, Austria.  The abbey was constructed on the site of the old Roman city of Juvavum, under the guidance of Saint Rupert of Salzburg, sometim... (Read More)

Oscar Wilde's home is on Tite Street in London.  It was here the famed author lived from 1884 to 1895 and knew his greatest successes.  Shortly after marrying Constance Lloyd on May 29, 1884, the couple moved into their new home a... (Read More)

Oscar Wilde's home in London is on Tite Street.  It was here the noted author and wit lived during 1881.  He was able to set himself up in the home with funds procured from the sale of his father's home.  He lived here at... (Read More)

Oscar Wilde's home is on Rue des Beaux-Arts in Paris. It was here the exiled writer died in 1900. Sentenced on sodomy charges in England, Wilde served two years, from 1895 to 1897, at Reading Gaol.  He was a broken man on his release.&... (Read More)

The Palace of Holyroodhouse is located at the eastern end of the Royal Mile in Edinburgh, Scotland.  The palace, sitting beneath the Salisbury Crags an... (Read More)

The Palace of Versailles is located on Place d'Arms in Versailles, France.  The palace began its life as a hunting lodge aquired by Louis XIII in 1624.  Between 1631 and 1634 he had a small chateau built to replace the old lodge.&... (Read More)

Palazzo Barbaro is located on S. Marco in Venice, Italy.  Formerly it was two separate structures, one, a Venetian Gothic style built in 1425, the other, a Baroque style built in 1694.  The first structure was purchased by Zaccaria Ba... (Read More)

Palazzo Bembo is located on Riva del Carbon along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.  It was the home of the noble Bembo family, who had this Venetian-Gothic style structure built at the end of the 14th century.  The family included Du... (Read More)

The Palazzo Cavalli-Franchetti is located on S. Marco, along the Grand Canal, in Venice, Italy.  The palace was built in 1565 and over the years had been subdivided among several notable Venetian families, Marcello, Gussoni, and Cavalli.&n... (Read More)

Palazzo Contarini del Bovolo is located in Corte Contarini, del Bovolo, in Venice, Italy.  The palace was built in the late 15th century and is know for it's famous spiral staircase, the Scala Contarini del Bovolo, which translates rou... (Read More)

Palazzo Dolfin Manin is located on Riva del Carbon along the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.  The current structure was built in 1536 by Jacopo Sansovino for the Dolfin family.  The construction merged together two older buildings and l... (Read More)

Palazzo Medici Riccardi is located on Via Camillo Cavour in Florence, Italy.  It was designed for Cosimo de Medici by architect Michelozzo di Bartolomeo and constructed between 1444 and 1484.  Cosimo was a banker and politician and th... (Read More)

Palazzo Pitti, or the Pitti Palace, is located on Piazza de' Pitti in Florence, Italy.  The palace dates back to 1458, when work on the structure began for Luca Pitti, a Florentine banker.  When Pitti died in 1472, the unfinished ... (Read More)

Palazzo Vecchio is located in Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy.  It was the seat of power of the Medici family from 1540 until they moved to the Palazzo Pitti.  The site originally housed two palaces, Palazzo dei Fanti and Pal... (Read More)

Paul McCartney's home is on Western Avenue in Liverpool.  It was here in Speke that the future Beatles singer/songwriter moved in 1946.  He had been born on June 18, 1942 to Mary Patricia, a midwife, and James McCartney, a musicia... (Read More)

Paul McCartney's home in Liverpool is on Forthlin Road.  It was here, in the Allerton Suburb, that the future Beatle and his family moved in 1955.  early on in his stay here his mother, Mary died on an embolism in 1956.  Shor... (Read More)

The Petit Trianon is located on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. Built for Louis XV by architect Ange-Jacques Gabriel, this neo-classical structure was finished in 1768 and called the Petit Trianon in order to dist... (Read More)

The Queen’s House is located in the Queen’s Hamlet on the grounds of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France. The Hamlet, a group of twelve buildings set in a crescent shape surrounding an artificial lake, was constructed bet... (Read More)

Raphael's home is located on Via del Conciliazione in Rome. It was here that the renowned Renaissance artist spent the last three years of his life. He was born Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino in 1483, either on March 28 or April 6, depending on... (Read More)

Richard Burton's home is located on Route de Céligny in Céligny, Switzerland.  The Welsh actor first came to this small Swiss town in 1956, but it wasn't until 1959 that he purchased this home along Lake Gen... (Read More)

Ringo Starr's birthplace is on Madryn Street in Liverpool, England.  It was here the future Beatles drummer was born Richard Starkey on July 7, 1940, to Elsie and Richard Starkey.  With Richard's birth, Elsie began focusing he... (Read More)

Ringo Starr's home is on Admiral Grove in Liverpool, England.  The future Beatles drummer wasborn around the corner, on Madryn Street, in 1940.  His parents separated and divorced a few years later and his mother, Elsie moved to t... (Read More)

Robert Schumann's home is located on Schönlaterngasse in Vienna, Austria.  It was here the famed composer lived from October 1838 to April 1839.  Schumann sought to make a name for himself in the great European music cap... (Read More)

Rodolphe Kreutzer's home is on Promenade de Saint-Antoine in Geneva, Switzerland.  The famed violin virtuoso was born in 1766 in Versaille and was... (Read More)

Rory Gallagher's home is on MacCurtain Street in Cork, Ireland.  The famed guitarist was born on March 2, 1948 in Ballyshannon.  In 1956 the family moved here to Cork.  They lived in this block on MacCurtain Street and it was... (Read More)

Gioachino Rossini's home is on Via Camillo Cavour in Florence, Italy.  It was here the famed composer lived from 1851 to 1855.  His time in Florence was the least productive of his career.  Having completed his last opera in ... (Read More)

Schönbrunn Palace is located on Schönbrunner Schloßstraße in Vienna, Austria.  Although the current structure dates back to the 1750's, the original site dates back to 1548, and the building of a mansion call... (Read More)

The Shakespeare and Company site is on Rue de l'Odeon in Paris.  It was here that American expatriate Sylvia Beach ran her famous book store from 1921 to 1941.  She opened her first Shakespeare and Company in 1919 at 8 rue Dupuytr... (Read More)

Sigmund Freud's home is located on Bergasse in Vienna, Austria.  It was here the noted psychoanalyst and his family lived from 1891 to 1938.  Freud's family first moved to Vienna in 1860.  He enetered the University of Vi... (Read More)

Sir Isaac Newton's home is on Jermyn Street in London. When Newton became Warden of the Royal Mint in April, 1696, he moved to London where he spent seven months living near the Tower of London, which was then the location of the Mint. ... (Read More)

Sir Isaac Newton's home site is on Jermyn Street in London.  When Newton became Warden of the Royal Mint in April, 1696, he moved to London where he spent seven months living near the Tower of London, which was then the location of the... (Read More)

Sir Walter Scott's home, Abbotsford, is located in Melrose, Scotland.  The noted author built the home in 1812 and lived there until his death in 1832.  From 1804 to 1811 Scott had been spending his summers at Ashestiel on the Riv... (Read More)

Stan Laurel's home is on Princes Street in Bishop Auckland, England.  The comedian lived in this home with his parents from 1891 to 1895. He was born in Ulverston, but moved here with his family soon after his birth.  He was bapti... (Read More)

Stan Laurel's home site is on Dockwray Square in North Shields, Englan.  The film comedian moved here with his family in 1895 when he was 5 years old.  He father had gotten a job as theater manager for the Theatre Royal on Prudhoe... (Read More)

Stirling Castle stands along Castle Esplanade, atop Castle Rock, the remains of a 350-million-year-old volcano, in Stirling, Scotland.  This fortress s... (Read More)

T.S. Eliot's home is in Kensington Court Place in London.  He spent the last 8 years of his life here in room 37 at the Kensington Court Gardens.  The 68 year old poet, essayist and playwright married 30 year old Valerie Fletcher,... (Read More)

Tchaikovsky's home site is on Av. Claude-Nobs in Montreux, Switzerland.  It was here at the Pension Richelieu, which once stood at this location, that the famed composer lived off and on from the winter of 1877 to the spring of 1878.&n... (Read More)

Thomas Paine's home is on Rue de l'Odeon in Paris.  It was here the philosopher/activist lived from 1797 to 1802.  The French Revolution brought him to Paris in 1790, and he began writing and publishing the pamphlets supportin... (Read More)

Tintoretto's home is located on Fondamenta dei Mori in Venice, Italy.  The noted painter and practitioner of the Venetian School was born in the city in 1518 and moved to this home around 1546.  He chose this location to live beca... (Read More)

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's home is on Rue Caulaincourt in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, France.  The famed artist lived here from 1887 to 1893.  With his mother's approval he originally moved to the area under the gui... (Read More)

The Treaty of Paris location is on Rue Jacob in Paris, France.  In this house, the Revolutionary War Treaty was signed on September 3, 1783 by Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, and John Adams along with representatives of the British government... (Read More)

Urquhart Castle is located in Drumnadrochit, Inverness, Scotland, along the banks of Loch Ness.  Although there were fortifications along the promontory as far back as the 500s, the first ownership of the land was granted to Alan Durward, ... (Read More)

Villa Diodati is located on Chemin de Ruth in Cologny, Switzerland, along Lake Geneva.  Originally known as Villa Belle Rive and constructed in 1710 the mansion is now famous for its association with Lord Byron and Mary Shelley.  In A... (Read More)

Vincent Van Gogh's home is on Rue Lepic in the Montmartre neighborhood of Paris, France.  The noted artist lived here with his brother Theo from 1886 to 1888.  Having recently failed in his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in A... (Read More)

Vivien Leigh's home is on Eaton Square in London.  The actress moved into flat D in this apartment in 1958, where she lived with actor Jack Merivale during her breakup with Laurence Oliver, which finally ended in divorce 1960.&nbs... (Read More)

Voltaire's home is on Rue des Délices in Geneva, Switzerland.  He lived at this mansion, Les Read More)

Voltaire's home is on Quai Voltaire in Paris.  The famed philosopher/author lived the last three months of his life here.  He had been away from Paris for the past twenty-five years and returned in February of 1783.  His writ... (Read More)

William Faulkner's home is on Rue Servandoni in Paris.  This address, otherwise known as the Grand Hotel des Principautes-Unies, was the residence of the future Nobel/Pulitzer Prize wining author from August of 1925 until December... (Read More)

The El Tovar Hotel is located on Village Loop Drive in Grand Canyon Village, Arizona, near the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.  The hotel was completed in 1905 and served the growing number of people visiting the canyon via the recently ope... (Read More)

The Grand Canyon Hotel is located on Historic Route 66 in Williams, Arizona.  The building claims to be the oldest hotel in Arizona.  It was constructed in 1891 when Williams was still an old west town, with dirt roads, prostitutes an... (Read More)

The Hotel Beale is located on East Andy Devine Avenue in Kingman, Arizona, along Historic Route 66.  The building was constructed in 1903 by Harvey Hubbs to help service to passengers of the Santa Fe Railway Station which sits across the s... (Read More)

The Hotel Monte Vista is located on San Francisco Street in Flagstaff, Arizona, one block north of Historic Route 66.  The hotel was constructed in 1926 by a group of citizens who felt that the growing city needed a place for visitors and ... (Read More)

The Oatman Hotel is located on Main Street in Oatman, Arizona, along Historic Route 66.  It was constructed in 1902 as the Durlin Hotel with the intention of catering to the local miners.  After two major gold strikes in 1908 and 1913... (Read More)

The Painted Desert Inn is located on Painted Forest Road just north of Historic Route 66 in the Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona.  The inn began life as a lodge, built in the early 1920's by entrepreneur Herb P. Lore, called the... (Read More)

The Weatherford Hotel is located on North Leroux Street in Flagstaff, Arizona, one block off Historic Route 66.  Due to a spate of fires in the area in the late 1890's all buildings were required to be constructed of brick.  With ... (Read More)

Wigwam Motel #6 is located on West Hopi Drive in Holbrook, Arizona, along Historic Route 66.  It is one of seven Wigwam villages built between 1933 and 1950, of which three still survive.  Frank A. Redford, the original designer of th... (Read More)

A Perfect Day house is located on Vera Avenue in Los Angeles, California.  This Culver City home served as the shooting location for the Laurel and Hardy short film A Perfect Day.  The location is only a few blocks from the fo... (Read More)

Alan Ladd's home is on Camino Norte in Palm Springs, California.  It was designed for Ladd in 1955 by architect Donald Wexler in the Desert Modernist style.  With the success of Shane in 1953, the film star was at the hei... (Read More)

Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary is located on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. It first opened it's doors in 1934, designed to be a prison to house the nation's most troublesome criminals, although it's origins as a military pris... (Read More)

Bela Lugosi's home is on Harold Way in Los Angeles, California.  It was here that the faded film star spent the last year of his life.  After the initial success of Dracula in 1931, Lugosi began the slow, steady spiral downwards to the... (Read More)

The house used for exteriors in the Laurel and Hardy short Big Business is located on Dunleer Drive in Los Angeles. By 1929 Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy had made over twenty shorts together in the two years they had been working as a team. ... (Read More)

 Bob Hope's home is on East Buena Vista Drive in Palm Springs, California.  This was the first vacation home he owned in the desert community.  This Spanish style home was built in 1936 and the Hope's moved here in 1941.&... (Read More)

 Bob Hope's home is on East El Alameda in Palm Springs.  This was the second home the entertainer bought in the area.  He and his wife Dolores moved here to this 1935 California Ranch style home in 1946.  They had beeen ... (Read More)

Bob Hope's home is on Moorpark Street in Toluca Lake, Ca.  In the spring of 1940 Bob Hope purchased this Tudor style home in Toluca Lake.  He had been renting since his arrival to Hollywood in 1938, but, unlike many stars of ... (Read More)

Boris Karloff's home is located on Toluca Lake Avenue in Toluca Lake, California.  It was here the horror film star lived from 1931 to 1934.  Karloff had been appearing in films since 1919 and had never risen above supporting play... (Read More)

The Brocklebank Apartments are located on Mason Street, atop Nob Hill, in San Francisco, California.  The apartments were constructed in 1926 by the architectural firm of Weeks and Day.  It was one of four structures the group built u... (Read More)

The Bullitt home is located on Taylor Street in San Francisco, California.  The exterior of this apartment was used as the home of Frank Bullitt in the 1968 crime thriller.  The film was shot in and around San Francisco durin... (Read More)

Cary Grant's home is on North Avenida Palmas in Palm Springs, California. Grant moved in with his third wife, actress Betsy Drake, in 1954 and lived here for the next 18 years.  He had recently retired from films, but would soon be lur... (Read More)

The bachelor pad of Cary Grant and Randolph Scott is located on West Live Oak Drive in Los Angeles, California.  The two stars lived here during the early 1930's.  Their close friendship led to speculations, which exist to the present day, that... (Read More)

The Double Indemnity house is located on Quebec Drive in Los Angeles, California.  This Spanish Colonial Revival mansion was used for the location filming in the 1944 film noir.  The Billy Wilder directed classic stars Fred M... (Read More)

Elvis Presley's home is on Hillcrest Road in Beverly Hills, California.  He bought this Beverly Hills home in 1967 and used it as his and Priscilla's west coast residence until they divorced in 1973. Some of the films he made while... (Read More)

This Spanish Colonial ranch house was built in 1946 by the Jergens family.  In 1960, Ray Kroc of McDonalds fame bought the home and lived here until 1970, when Elvis Presley purchased the property.  Elvis lived here with Priscill... (Read More)

Elvis and Priscilla Presley's homeymoon home is located on Ladera Circle in Palm Springs, California.  Hailed as the House of Tomorrow when it was built in 1962, the house is more famously remebered as the honeymoon retreat of Elvis Pr... (Read More)

The Fairmont Hotel is located on Mason Street, atop Nob Hill, in San Francisco, California.  It was nearing completion in April of 1906, when the Great Earthquake struck.  Although the building surived it was ravaged by the ensuing fi... (Read More)

Frank Sinatra's home is on East Alejo Road in Palm Springs, California.  It was built for the legendary performer by architect E. Stewart Williams.  Sinatra moved here in 1947 with first wife Nancy.  At that time his career w... (Read More)

Frank Sinatra's home is on Frank Sinatra Drive in Rancho Mirage, California.  The famed entertainer called this estate his desert getaway from 1957 to 1995.  He had just divorced Ava Gardner before moving here, although he wouldn&... (Read More)

The Grateful Dead home is located on Ashbury Street in San Francisco, California.  It was here in the Haight-Ashbury district that the band maintained a residence at this Victorian mansion from 1966 to 1968.  The band formerly known a... (Read More)

Harold Lloyd's home is on North Avenida Palmas in Palm Springs, California.  The famed silent film star built this Spanish bungalow in 1925 when he was at the top of his game in Hollywood.  He had just released the highly successf... (Read More)

Harvey Milk's home is located on Castro Street in the Castro District of San Francisco, California.  It was here that Milk ran his Castro Camera shop from 1973 to 1978.  He quickly became known for his support of gay businesses in... (Read More)

The Hell's Angels home is on Ashbury Street in San Francisco, California.  In this circa 1900 Queen Anne Victorian house the notorious motor cycle club set up their headquarters.  They had been in San Francisco since their first c... (Read More)

The Hotel St. Francis is located on Powell Street, on Union Square, in San Francisco, California.  It opened on March 21, 1904 and quickly became one of the city's most luxurious spots.  On April 18, 1906 the San Francisco Earthqu... (Read More)

The Interview With The Vampire house is located on Divisadero Street in San Francisco, California.  It was here that the interview in Anne Rice's famous horror novel was said to have taken place.  In 1973, shortly after t... (Read More)

Jack Benny's home is on North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, California.  It was here the famed comedian lived from 1938 until the late 1960's.  Benny was born in Chicago, but grew up in Waukegan, Illinois.  After many y... (Read More)

Jack London's home is on Buena Vista Avenue West in San Francisco, California.  It was here the famed author wrote his classic White Fang in 1906.  The Colonial Revial style home was built in 1897 for sugar magnate Richar... (Read More)

Janis Joplin's home is on Lyon Street in San Francisco, California.  This was the first apartment the singer rented in the Haight-Ashbury district.  She lived here in 1967 with friend Linda Gravenites before moving into a home on ... (Read More)

Janis Joplin's home is on Ashbury Street in San Francisco, California.  This four-story apartment house, built in 1905, was one of several Haight-Ashbury residences of the singer.  ... (Read More)

The Jefferson Airplane's home is on Fulton Street in San Francisco, California. This three-storey Colonial Revival style house was built in 1904 by lumberman John Vance.  The house survived the devastation of the 1906 quake and re... (Read More)

Jimi Hendrix's home in San Fransisco is on Haight Street.  Although the legendary rock guitarist worked mainly out of New York and London, he did spend a short period of time in San Francisco in the 1960's. He resided here, at the ... (Read More)

Jimmy Durante's home is on North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills, California. He lived here with his wife, Margie Little, from 1960 until his death.  The couple had married in December, 1960, but had been dating since 1944, shortly afte... (Read More)

Lucille Ball's home is located on North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, California.  The actress lived here from 1954 until her death in 1989.  She purchased this two-story colonial house with husband Desi Arnaz in 1954.  The... (Read More)

The Mark Hopkins Hotel is located on California Street atop Nob Hill in San Francisco, California.  It was built on the site of the Mark Hopkins mansion.  Hopkins was one of the founders of the Central Pacific Railroad and his mansion... (Read More)

Marlene Dietrich's home is on North Roxburty Drive in Beverly Hills, California.  It was here the actress lived in the 1930's.  After her film breakthorough in The Blue Angel (1930) she signed a contract with Paramoun... (Read More)

The McElroy Octagon House is located on Gough Street in the Cow Hollow section of San Francisco, California.  It is one of only three octagon houses remaining in the city.  The home was built in 1861 for William, a local miller, and H... (Read More)

Metallica's home is on Carlson Boulevard in El Cerrito, California.  In the garage of this rented home the up and coming band wrote and rehearsed their two breakthrough albums.  They had formed in Los Angeles in 1981 and by 1... (Read More)

Oliver Hardy's home is on Alta Drive in Beverly Hills, California.  The famed screen comedian had been living in Los Feliz for a number of years, during which time he bounced around from studio to studio, finding steady work, but not y... (Read More)

Oliver Hardy's home is on Russell Avenue in Los Angeles, California.  This house in the Los Feliz section was an early home of comedian Oliver Hardy. He lived here during his aspiring star days in the 1920s. During that time ... (Read More)

Ramon Novarro's home is on Valley Oak Drive in Los Angeles, California.  It was here the matinee idol lived from 1932 to 1937.  Novarro initially had the Lloyd Wright designed mansion built in 1928 for his personal assistant Louis... (Read More)

Robert Louis Stevenson's home is on Bush Street in San Francisco, California.  It was here at this apartment, in December of 1879, that the author found himself, sick and unemployed, after a cross country voyage.  In August of tha... (Read More)

The Shadow of a Doubt house is located on McDonald Avenue in Santa Rosa, California.  It was stood in for the Newton family home in the 1943 Alfred Hitchcock production.  During wartime Hollywood faced certain restrictions in... (Read More)

Sheila Graham's home is on North Hayworth Avenue in West Hollywood, California.  It was here in this apartment the noted gossip columnist lived with her lover, author F. Scott Fitzgerald.  Fitzgerald had recently suffered a heart ... (Read More)

Stan Laurel's home is on North Bedford Drive in Beverly Hills, California.  The film comedian lived here from 1929, shortly after his partnership with Oliver Hardy began, to 1930, the year he separated from his wife, Lois.  Laurel... (Read More)

Stan Laurel's home is on Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, California.  In the early 1960s the famed comedian, along with his wife, Ida, moved into a second floor, ocean view apartment, here at the Oceana Hotel.  It would prove to be ... (Read More)

The Carpenters apartment in Downey, California is on Downey Avenue. When Harold and Agnes Carpenter moved their family from New Haven, Connecticut out to Downey, California in 1963 they first stayed in the former Shoji Apartments.  Not hav... (Read More)

Theda Bara's home is on North Alpine Drive in Beverly Hills, California.  The silent film star left her Los Angeles mansion when her career ended in 1919, and found other lodgings, including a home in New York she used for visits to th... (Read More)

Theda Bara's home is located on West Adams Boulevard in Los Angeles, California.  In 1917 the actress moved to Los Angeles from New York and purchased this Tudor mansion, originally built in 1905, on what used to be the ... (Read More)

Thelma Todd's death site is located on Posetano Road in Pacific Palisades, California.  It was here in this garage that the asphyxiated body of the actress was found on December 16, 1935.  The garage is the bottom level of a three... (Read More)

Thelma Todd's Sidewalk Cafe is located on Pacific Coast Highway in Pacific Palisades, California.  The Mediterranean style building was constructed in 1927 as a community center for the Castellammare neighborhood, which rises directly ... (Read More)

Walt Disney's home is on Woking Way in Los Angeles, California.  This French-Mediterranean style house was built by Disney in 1932.  The Disneys lived here until 1945 when they moved into another home in Holmby Hills.  W... (Read More)

Walt Disney's home is on Lyric Avenue in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles, California.  The lot was purchased by Walt for $1,000.  He bought a Pacific Ready-Cut home, a ready-to-assemble 2 bedroom... (Read More)

The Whittier Mansion is located on Jackson Street in San Francisco, California.  It was built for William Franklin Whittier, shipping magnate and co-founder of the Fuller O'Brien Paint Company, in 1896.  The home was designed by a... (Read More)

The Wigwam Motel #7 is located on East Foothill Boulevard, along Historic Route 66, in Rialto, California.  It is one in a series of seven motel villages built by developer Frank A. Redford between 1933 and 1950.  Wigwam Motels were a... (Read More)

William Powell's home is on West Vereda Norte in Palm Springs, California.  In 1940 Powell courted and married actress Diana Lewis and, shortly after, they purchased this 1935-36 Mediterranean/Spanish Revival style house as their deser... (Read More)

The Winchester Mystery House is located on South Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, California.  In 1881, Sarah Winchester, wife of William Winchester, heir to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company fortune, inherited 20 million dollars from... (Read More)

Zane Grey's home is on East Mariposa Street in Altadena, California.  The noted western author moved his family to Southern California in 1918 to try his hand in the burgeoning film industry.  In 1920 he and his wife bou... (Read More)

The Mark Twain House and Museum is located on Farmington Avenue in Hartford, Connecticut.  In 1873 author Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, hired architecht Edward Tuckerman Potter to design a house for him and his wife, Olivia, to be bui... (Read More)

The Noah Webster birthplace is located on South Main Street in West Hartford, Connecticut.  The Lexicographer and author was born at this farm on October 16, 1758.  He lived here with his family until leaving for college in 1774. ... (Read More)

Roger Sherman's home site is located on Main Street in New Milford, Connecticut.  The future politician moved here with his family in 1743, following the death of his father.  It was in New Milford that Sherman married his first w... (Read More)

President Lincoln’s cottage is located at Rock Creek Church Road, on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home in Washington, D.C.  The Gothic Revival Style cottage was completed in 1843 for George Washington Riggs, the preside... (Read More)

The Benjamin Ogle Tayloe house is located on Madison Place in Washington, D.C.  It was the home of the noted businessman and diplomat from 1829 to 1868.  The 3-story Federal Style house was completed in 1828 and Tayloe and his wife Ju... (Read More)

Blair House is located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.  It is one of four residences that make up the President's Guest House.  It was constructed in 1824 and purchased in 1836 by newspaper publisher Francis Preston Bla... (Read More)

The Cleveland Abbe House is located on I Street in Washington, D.C.  This three-story Federal Style brick row home was built by Timothy Caldwell sometime between 1802 and 1805.  During the years the house has had a string of famous oc... (Read More)

The Decatur House is located on Jackson Place, along Lafayette Square, in Washington, D.C.  It was the home of Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr.  The 3-story red brick townhouse was designed in the Federal Style by architect Benjamin Hen... (Read More)

The Dolley Madison House, also known as the Cutts-Madison House, is located on H Street, along Lafayette Square, in Washington, D.C.  The American Colonial Style home was completed in 1819 as a residence for Richard Cutts and his wife, Ann... (Read More)

Duke Ellington’s birthplace site is on Ward Place in Washington, D.C.  Edward Kennedy Ellington entered the world on April 29, 1899 here, at his maternal grandparent’s house, which once stood on this site, at 2129 Ida Place.&nb... (Read More)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's home is on R Street in Washington, D.C.  He and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, first moved to the city in 1913 when he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson.  They firs... (Read More)

The Hay-Adams Hotel is located on 16th Street in Washington, D.C.  The historic hotel stands on the site of the homes of John Hay and Henry Adams.  Hay was the personal secretary to Abraham Lincon, then Secretary of State, and Ambassa... (Read More)

Herbert Hoover's home is on S Street in Washington, D.C.  In 1920 President Warren G. Harding appointed Hoover Secretary of Commerce. He and his wife Lou Henry moved into this mansion and lived here until he was elected President in 19... (Read More)

The Hotel Harrington is located on 11th Street in Washington, D.C.  The building first opened in March, 1914 and remains the city's oldest continuously operating hotel.  Although other hotels in the city attract the wealthy and fa... (Read More)

The Hotel Washington is located on 15th Street in Washington, D.C.  The Beaux-Arts hotel was designed by the famed architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings and opened in 1917.  The building has been used as a shooting location for s... (Read More)

J. Edgar Hoover’s home is on 30th Place in the Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Forest Hills.  He moved here in 1939, four years after being made director of the newly formed Federal Bureau of Investigation.  From 192... (Read More)

Lyndon Baines Johnson’s home is on 30th Place in Washington, D.C.  The future president lived here from 1943 to 1961.  He began his career in Houston as a teacher, before becoming involved in politics.  In 1937 h... (Read More)

The Octagon House is located on New York Avenue in Washington, D.C.  It was the home of Colonel John Tayloe III, a wealthy businessman and plantation owner, and his wife Ann Ogle Tayloe.  The house began construction in 1799 under the... (Read More)

The Petersen House is located on 10th Street in Washington, D.C., directly opposite Ford's Theatre.  It was here that Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865.  The previous evening the president and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, had... (Read More)

The Mary Surratt boarding house is located on H Street in Washington, D.C.  The Federal Style building was built in 1843 and purchased by John Surratt in 1853.  After Surratt’s untimely death in 1862 his wife,  Mary, attemp... (Read More)

The 1973 horror classic The Exorcist was mainly filmed on soundstages in New York city, but there were several exteriors shot in Georgetown, where the film is set.  The house where the possession takes place still stands, however ... (Read More)

The White House is located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.  It has been the home of every United States President since John Adams took up residence here in 1800.  The building was designed by architect James Hoban and cons... (Read More)

Theodore Roosevelt's home is on Jackson Place in Washington, D.C.  It was here the 26th president lived during 1902.  He inherited the office on September 14, 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley, for whom he served un... (Read More)

Warren G. Harding's home is on Wyoming Avenue in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C.  He was a recently elected senator from Ohio when he moved into this newly constructed Georgian mansion in 1917.  By the time he moved ... (Read More)

The Willard Hotel is located on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C.  The hotel began life in 1816 as Tennison’s Hotel, a 6 unit complex built by Colonel John Tayloe III.  After years of failing profits the structures were so... (Read More)

William Howard Taft's home is on Wyoming Avenue in Washington, D.C.  Newly elected President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1921, at which time he moved into this 1904 mansion in the Kalorama nei... (Read More)

Woodrow Wilson's home is on S Street in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C.  After serving as President from 1913 to 1921 Wilson and his wife, Edith Bolling, moved into this Georgian Revival Style mansion, originally construc... (Read More)

The Wyoming Apartments are located on Columbia Road in Washington, D.C.  It is a Beaux-Arts building constructed in 1905 by B. Stanley Simmons.  A second wing was added in 1911.  It's most famous resident is Dwight Eisenhower... (Read More)

The Henry B. Tompkins House is located on Wesley Road in Atlanta, Georgia.  It was designed by Atlanta architect Neel Reid, of the firm Heintz, Reed... (Read More)

The Herndon Home is located on University Place in Atlanta, Georgia.  The 1910 Beaux Arts mansion was the home of former slave Alonzo Herndon and his family.... (Read More)

The L.P. Grant Mansion is located on St. Paul Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.  The Italianate mansion was built in 1856 for railroad engineer and businessman Lemuel Pratt Grant.Read More)

The Margaret Mitchell House, formerly the Crescent Apartments, is located on Crescent Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.  The house was originally built in 1899, at 806 Peachtree Street, as a single family home for Cornelius Sheehan.  In 191... (Read More)

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthplace is located on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia.  It is part of the Sweet Auburn Historic District.  The 1895 Queen Anne house was purchased in 1909 by Reverend Adam Daniel Williams, the pastor a... (Read More)

The Swan House is located on Slaton Drive in Atlanta, Georgia.  The home was built in 1928 for Edward and Emily Inman, wealthy cotton brokers and investors.  They hired noted Atlanta architect Phillip Trammell Shutze to design their n... (Read More)

The Wren's Nest, home of writer Joel Chandler Harris, is located on Ralph David Abernathy Bouevard in Atlanta, Georgia.  The author of the Uncle remus stories lived here from 1881 to 1908.  Recently h... (Read More)

The Hotel Monteleone is located on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  Life began for the Monteleone in 1886, as the Commercial Hotel.  It was purchased that year by Antonio Monteleone, a Sicilian shoemaker ... (Read More)

The Abraham Lincoln Home National Historic Site is located on South Seventh Avenue in Springfield, Illinois.  It was here Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States, and his family lived from 1844-1861, when they moved to Washing... (Read More)

Al Capone's home is on South Prairie Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.  The family home of the noted gangster still stands on South Prairie Avenue in Chicago.  It was in this home that Capone lived with  his mother, wife, and son.  The home was buil... (Read More)

Angelo Genna's apartment is located on North Sheridan Road in Chicago, Illinois.  The youngest of the ruthless Genna brothers crime family, "BloodyAngelo" lived in an upper floor apartment, here at the Belmont Hotel, with his wife, Lucille.  In... (Read More)

Bobby Franks' home is on  South Ellis Avenue in Chicago.  On May 21, 1924, Franks was walking here from the Harvard School when, three blocks down the street, he was kidnapped by Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. They took Bob... (Read More)

John Dillinger's hideout is on North Clarendon Avenue in Chicago. In the fall of 1933 John Dillinger rented a six-room apartment on the third floor of this building in Chicago.  He, Harry Pierpont, Pierpont's girl, Mary Kinder, and... (Read More)

The New Commonwealth Hotel is located on North Pine grove Avenue in Chicago, Illinois.  Comedian Joe E. Lewis was living here, in room 332 of the New Commonwealth Hotel, as he was making a name for himself in show business. He ha... (Read More)

Rogers Hornsby's home is Chicago is on North Dearborn Street.  The baseball hall-of-famer moved into this Chicago Apartment at the end of 1944, when he and his wife of 20 years, Jeannette, finally parted ways.  She remained i... (Read More)

Rogers Hornsby's home is on West Thorndale Avenue in Chicago.  The baseball great lived in this six unit apartment building he bought in 1948 with his girlfriend Bernadette Harris.  The couple lived here, in the first floor unit,&... (Read More)

Sam Giancana's home is on South Wenonah Avenue in Oak Park, Illinois.  The Chicago crime boss had alienated himself from the Chicago Outfit by attracting too much attention from the public and the federal authorities.  H... (Read More)

Ulysss S. Grant's home is on Bouthiller Street in Galena, Illinois.  Upon his return from the Civil War in 1865, the general was given this Italianate style brick house by a small group of Republicans in the city.  Grant lived her... (Read More)

Walt Disney's birthplace is on North Tripp Avenue in Chicago.  The legendary film producer was born here, in this two-story wood cottage, on December 5, 1901.  His father, Elias Disney, had purchased the land in 1891, and began bu... (Read More)

James Dean's birthplace site is at the intersection of 4th Street and McClure Street in Marion, Indiana.  The future actor was born at the Seven Gables apartment house on February 8, 1931.  He lived with his parents, Winton Dean a... (Read More)

James Dean's home is on Sand Pike Road in Jonesboro, Indiana along S 150E north of Fairmount.  This was the actor's childhood home from 1940 to 1949.  Although he was born in nearby Marion his family had shortly after relocate... (Read More)

Amelia Earhart's birthplace is on North Terrace Street in Atchison, Kansas.  On July 24, 1897 the noted female aviator was born in this wood frame, Gothic Revival cottage, now known as The Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum.  The home, which lies... (Read More)

Buster Keaton's birthplace site is on South Hill Street in Piqua, Kansas. The silent screen comedy legend was born Joseph Frank Keaton here on October 4, 1895.  His parents, Joseph and Myra Keaton, were vaudevillians passing ... (Read More)

Walter Johnson's birthplace site is at the intersection of 900 Street and Iowa Road in Humboldt, Kansas.  The Hall of Fame pitcher was born here, at the farm which stood on this property, on November 6, 1887.  Although farmland still surrounds ... (Read More)

Abraham Lincoln's Birthplace is located on Lincoln Farm Road in Hodgenville, Kentucky.  On February 12, 1809, Abraham Lincoln was reportedly born in this one-room log cabin, now called The Abraham Lincoln Bithplace National Historic Park.  His ... (Read More)

The Andrew Jackson Hotel is located on Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.  It sits on the site of the Old Federal Courthouse, which was the location of Andrew Jackson's trial for contempt of court.  Jackson had arrived in New Orleans in De... (Read More)

The Beauregard-Keyes House is located on Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The house sits on property once owned by the Ursuline nuns.  The property was purchased by auctioneer Joseph Le Carpentier in 1825.  In 1... (Read More)

The Bradish Johnson House is located on Prytania Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  This French Second Empire style mansion was built in 1874 for the noted American industrialist Bradish Johnson,  as a retiremen... (Read More)

The Brevard-Rice House is located on First Street in the New Orleans Garden District.  The two story Greek Revival style house dates to 1857, when it was constructed for merchant Albert Hamilton Brevard by James Calrow and Charles Pride.&n... (Read More)

The Briggs-Staub House is located on Prytania Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The mansion was built in 1849 for Londoner Charles Briggs by James Gallier.  It is unique in the Garden District because it was bu... (Read More)

The Carroll-Crawford House is located on First Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The Italianate center-hall mansion was built in 1869 for cotton merchant Joseph Carroll by Scottish builder Samuel Jamison.  Whil... (Read More)

The Carter Brothers home is on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  It was here that the infamous vampires, John and Wayne Carter, reportedly lived.  Legend states their deeds were finally discovered in 1932 ... (Read More)

Colonel Short's Villa is located on Fourth Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  It sits on land that once belonged to the Livaudais Plantation.  In 1832 the land was subdivided and sold in smaller units. ... (Read More)

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The Cornstalk Hotel is located on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  It sits on land that has been occupied since at least 1730, although all early traces of habitation were wiped out during the Great Fires of N... (Read More)

Edgar Degas' home is on Esplanade Avenue in New Orleans.  From October 1872 to March 1873 the French Impressionist lived in this house in the Esplanade Ridge Neighborhood.  He spent the time here visiting his maternal relatives th... (Read More)

The Gallier House is located on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  It was the home of noted New Orleans architect James Gallier, Jr., built in 1857 on land that had once belonged to the Ursuline Convent.  T... (Read More)

The Gardette-Le Pretre House is located on Dauphine Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The house was contructed in 1836 for Joseph Coulon Gardette, a Philadelphia dentsist.  The three story Greek Revival mansion ... (Read More)

The Gilmour-Parker House is located on Prytania Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The Italianate style mansion was erected in 1853 for Thomas Corse Gilmour, a London-born  cotton merchant, by architect-builder ... (Read More)

The Hermann-Grima House is located on St. Louis Street in the French Quarter of New Orleasn, Louisiana.  The Federal style mansion was constructed in 1831 for Samuel Hermann, a German broker and real estate agent, based on designs by archi... (Read More)

The Hotel Villa Convento is located on Ursulines Avenue in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The hotel sits on property once belonging to the Ursuline nuns.  In 1805 they partitioned off their land and by 1833 the propert... (Read More)

Jelly Roll Morton's home is located on Frenchmen Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The self styled inventor of jazz was born Ferdinand Joseph La Mothe, most probably in this home, between 1885 and 1890.  Birth certificates were not required at... (Read More)

Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop is located on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The building dates to around 1772 and is the city's oldest surviving briquette-entre-poteaux structure.  Legend has long ... (Read More)

The LaLaurie Mansion is located on Royal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The land on which the mansion sits was purchased in 1831 by Delphine LaLaurie, a New Orleans-born socialite who had married her third husband, Leonard LaLaurie, in... (Read More)

Madame John's Legacy is located on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The original structure was built sometime in the 1830's for Francois Marin ans his wife Elisabeth Real.  After Elisabeth's death in 1777 the house... (Read More)

Marie Laveau's home site is on Rue St. Ann Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.  Between 1839 and 1881 the famed Voodoo Queen lived in a house which once stood on this spot.  Although little is known of her life, she was reportedly b... (Read More)

The Mayor Isaac W. Patton House is located on Washington Avenue in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  According to the plaque: This Greek Revival house was erected for Lothrop Lewis Smith who purchased the site in 1853, was hi... (Read More)

The Merieult House is located on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  According to the plaque which sits in front:  Merieult House erected in 1792 on the site of the first barracks, forges and workshops of th... (Read More)

The Morris-Israel House is located on First Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The Italianate style mansion was built in 1858 by designer Samuel Jamison.  It is considered to be one of the finest examples of Ita... (Read More)

The Old Ursuline Convent is located on Chartres Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The current structure dates to 1751 when construction was completed on what was then the second home for the Ursuline nuns.  They came from Rouen, Fran... (Read More)

Our Mother of Perpetual Help Chapel is located on Prytania Street in the Gardne District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The Italianate styel mansion was designed by architect Henry Howard in 1857.  The house is complete with elaborate me... (Read More)

The Payne-Strachan House is located on First Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  It was here the former President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, died in 188... (Read More)

Tennessee Williams’ home is located on Toulouse Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.  It was here the young writer found himself in 1938 and, shortly after,... (Read More)

The Thomas Poree House is located on Royal Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  According to the plaque which hangs outside:  The ground floor of this building was erected for Juan Laporte in 1789 during the Spanis... (Read More)

Toby's Corner is located on Prytania Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisian.  The house was built in 1838 for Philadelphia born wheelwright Thomas Toby.  It is thought to be the oldest still standing structure in t... (Read More)

The Victor David House is located on St. Peter Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.  According to the plaque which hangs out front:  Erected in 1838 for Victor David, a native of Gascony, France, and his wife Anna R... (Read More)

William Faulkner's home is located on Pirate's Alley in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The future Nobel/Pulitzer Prize winning author rented the ground floor room of this apartment in January, 1925 from artist William Spratling.&nbs... (Read More)

The Women's Opera Guild House is located on Prytania Street in the Garden District of New Orleans, Louisiana.  The Greek Revival building was designed in 1859 by William Freret, for Edward A. Davis, and includes Italianate metalwork an... (Read More)

Babe Ruth's home is on Dutton Road in Sudbury, Massachusetts.  The baseball legend lived here from 1922 to 1926.  Ruth purchased this 155 acre property, soon to be named Home Plate Farm, as a way to escape the New York City social... (Read More)

Benjamin Franklin's birthplace site is on Milk Street in Boston, Massachusetts.  It was in a house which once stood at this location that the famed author, statesman, and invenot was born on January 17, 1706.  Franklin was the 15t... (Read More)

Benjamin Franklin's family home is at the intersection of Paul Revere Mall and Unity Street in Boston Massachusetts.  Although Franklin didn't live in the home his two sisters did.  The master mason Ebenezer Clough, who constr... (Read More)

Buckman Tavern is located on Bedford Street in Lexington, Massachusetts.  It was a gathering place for local militiamen in the days leading up to the Revolutionary War.  The circa 1710 building was built and run by Benjamin Muzzey, th... (Read More)

The Clough House is located on Unity Street in Boston, Massachusetts.  This red brick row home, located in the North End, was one of many such homes that populated the area in the 1700's.  Built in 1712 by Ebenezer Clough, a maste... (Read More)

The Derby House is located on Derby Street in Salem, Massachusetts.  The Georgian Style structure was built in 1762 and was the home of Elias Haskett Derby, a local merchant, and his wife, Elizabeth Crowninshield Derby.  They would li... (Read More)

The Ebenezer Hancock House is located on Marshall Street in Boston, Massachusetts.  It is the only extant structure in the city associated with John Hancock.  Hancock inherited part of the land from his Uncle Thomas in 1763 and purcha... (Read More)

Eugene O'Neill's home is on Bay State Road in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1951 the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Eugene moved into this building, then called the Hotel Sheraton, after being stricken with cerebellar cortical atrophy,... (Read More)

The Hancock-Clarke House is located on Hancock Street in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was the childhood home of John Hancock. The two-story timber-frame home was built in 1738 by the Reverend John Hancock, the second pastor of the Church of Chr... (Read More)

The Hartwell Tavern is an historic structure which sits at the intersection of North Great Road and Bedford Lane in Lincoln, Massachusetts.  It was built built circa 1733 for Ephraim and Elizabeth Hartwell and was maintained as a home by t... (Read More)

The Hawkes House is located on Derby Street in Salem, Massachusetts.  It is a Federal Style building which dates to 1780.  It was designed by noted architect Samuel McIntire for Elias Haskett Derby but construction stopped in 1782 whe... (Read More)

The Hawthorne Hotel is located on Washington Square W in Salem, Massachusetts.  The origin of the hotel dates back to 1923, when more than thousand local citizens, who felt the need for their city to have a modern hotel, bought stocks in t... (Read More)

Henry David Thoreau's birthplace is on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts.  The farmhouse was built around 1730 for John Wheeler.  In 1798 the farm was purchased by Deacon Samuel Minot for his son Jonas, who had recently marr... (Read More)

Henry David Thoreau's birthplace site is on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. The original farmhouse which stood here was built around 1730 for John Wheeler, then purchased in 1798 by Deacon Samuel Minot for his son Jonas, who had re... (Read More)

The Henry David Thoreau Cabin site is located off the shores of Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts.  The 14 acres of land on which Thoreau built his cabin were owned by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and it was here the transcendentalist author m... (Read More)

Herman Melville's home, Arrowhead, is located on Holmes Rd. in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.  The famed author lived here from 1850 to 1863.  The home was originally built in 1780 as a tavern and inn by David Bush.  Melville'... (Read More)

The Hodges House is located on Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts.  The home was built by Captain John Hodges in 1750.  The West Indies trader lived here until his death in 1788, when the home passed onto his son, Captain Benjamin H... (Read More)

The House of the Seven Gables is located on Derby Street in Salem, Massachusetts.  It was constructed in 1667 for sea captain John Turner and remained the family's home for three generations.  The original two room, two story home... (Read More)

John F. Kennedy's birthplace is on Beals Street in Brookline, Massachusetts. The house was originally built in 1909 and purchased by Joseph P. Kennedy in August 1914 as a home for himself and his future bride, Rose Fitzgerald.  The cou... (Read More)

John F. Kennedy's home is on Abbottsford Road in Brookline, Massachusetts.  The home was purchased by Joseph P. Kennedy in 1920 and was the second home he lived in with his wife, Rose, and family.  Their first home together is on ... (Read More)

The Jonathan Harrington House is located on Harrington Road, across from the Battle Green, in Lexington, Massachusetts.  The historic home was a witness to the Battle of Lexington, on April 19, 1775.  Legend states that Jonathan Harri... (Read More)

The Longfellow House - Washington's Headquarter National Historic Site is located on Brattle Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  The house was built in 1759, for John Vassall, who lived here with his family until 1774, when they moved... (Read More)

The Marrett and Nathan Munroe House is located on Massachusetts Avenue, across from the Battle Green, in Lexington, Massachusetts.  The historic home was a witness to the Battle of Lexington, fought here on April 19, 1775.  Built in 1... (Read More)

The Narbonne House is located on Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts.  It was constructed in 1675 for local butcher Thomas Ives.  Originally a one room structure, in ensuing years a kitchen and a side parlor were added.  In 1780... (Read More)

The Nathan Meriam House is located at the intersection of Lexington Road and Old Bedford Road in Concord, Massachusetts.  On August 19, 1775 Colonial troops, which had gathered at the home of Nathan Meriam, one of the Town Selectmen, engag... (Read More)

Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthplace is located on Derby Street, on the grounds of the House of the Seven Gables, in Salem, Massachusetts.  The famed author was born here, in the home of his grandparents, on July 4, 1804.  Hawthorne&#... (Read More)

Norman Rockwell's studio is located at Glendale Road, on the grounds of the Norman Rockwell Museum, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.  The famed artist moved to Stockbridge in the fall of 1953 and purchased a home on Main Street, where he... (Read More)

The Old Corner Bookstore is located at the intersection of Washington Street and School Street in Boston, Massachusetts.  Built by apothecary Thomas Crease in 1712 it is the oldest commercial building in the city.  Crease lived in the... (Read More)

Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House is located on Lexington Road in Concord, Massachusetts.  The Alcott family lived here from 1857 to 1877.  The land Orchard House sits on was purchased by Amos Bronson Alcott in 1857 for $950.00.&n... (Read More)

The Parker House Hotel is located on School Street in Boston, Massachusetts.  Originally opened on this site in 1855, it is the longest continuously operating hotel in America.  The hotel was founded by Harvey D. Parker and run by him... (Read More)

The Paul Revere House is located on North Square in Boston, Massachusetts, in the Historic North End. The American patriot left this home on the night of April 18, 1775 to embark on his famous Midnight Ride. The home was originally built by mer... (Read More)

Ralph Waldo Emerson's house is located on Cambridge Turnpike in Concord, Massachusetts.  The Transcendental author and lecturer purchsed this home and two acres of land in 1835.  It was here, at the house called Bush, that he... (Read More)

The Skinny House is located on Hull Street in Boston, Massachusetts.  At 10.4 feet wide it is thought to be the narrowest house in the city.  Built sometime after the Civil War, it sits on Copp's Hill across from the Burying Groun... (Read More)

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's home is on Essex Street in Salem, Massachsuetts.  The future wife of author Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on September 21, 1809 on Summer Street.  She was the third daughter of Nathaniel Peabody, a dentis... (Read More)

Sophia Peabody Hawthorne's home is on Charter Street in Salem, Massachusetts.  The... (Read More)

The Old Manse is located on Monument Street in Concord, Massachusetts. The origins of the house began in 1770 as the home of of the grandfather of Ralph Waldo Emerson.   Emerson lived here around 1816, then returned in ... (Read More)

The Wayside is located on Lexington Road in Concord, Massachusetts.  It was the home of the Alcotts and the Hawthornes in the 1840's and 1850's.  The home was purchased by Amos Bronson Alcott with funds supplied by his wife... (Read More)

The Witch House is located on Essex Street in Salem, Massachusetts.  Historians debate the actual construction date, some claiming as early as 1620 and others as late as 1675.  What is known is that Judge Jonathan Corwin moved into th... (Read More)

The Thoreau-Alcott house is located on Main Street in Concord, Massachusetts.  It was the home of both Henry David Thoreau and Louis May Alcott.  The house was built by Josiah Davis in 1849 and the following year Thoreau and his famil... (Read More)

The Warner Oland House is located on Gilmore Road in Southborough, Massachusetts.  The home, also known as the Charles Burnett House, named for the original owner, dates to circa 1815.  The home passed through several hands before it ... (Read More)

Annie Oakley's home is located on Bellevue Road in Cambridge, Maryland. After retiring from the Young Buffalo Show in October 1913, Annie Oakley and her husband, Frank Butler, built this two story Colonial Revival cottage, overlooking Hambr... (Read More)

Babe Ruth's birthplace is located on Emory Street in Baltimore, Maryland.  The famed slugger was born here, at the home of his maternal grandparents, on February 6, 1895.  The row home was located in a rough and tumble area then known as Pigtow... (Read More)

Billie Holiday's home is on South Durham Street in Baltimore, Maryland.  It was here the famed vocalist lived with her mother in a row home in the Upper Fells Point area in 1926.  In this home Bi... (Read More)

The Carroll Mansion is located on East Lombard Street in Baltimore, Maryland.  The Federal Style home was built in 1808.  Richard Caton purchased the home in 1818.  He was the husband of Mary Carroll, daughter of Charles Carroll ... (Read More)

Clara Barton's home is on Oxford Road in Glen Echo, Maryland.  The founder of the American Red Cross lived the last 15 years of he life here.  She was born on December 25, 1891 in Oxford, Massachusetts and spent her early years as... (Read More)

The Edgar Allan Poe House is located on N. Amity Street in Baltimore.  The brick row home, standing at what was once 3 Amity Street, was rented in 1832 by Maria Clemm who lived in the house with her daughter, Virginia Clemm, and her mother, Eli... (Read More)

Edith Hamilton's home is on Park Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. The author and educator was born in Dresden, Germany in 1867.  She spent several years going to school in Connecticut and Pennsylvania before returning to Germany where sh... (Read More)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's apartment in Baltimore is located on East 34th Street.  Wolman Hall, which sits on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, was formerly The Cambridge Arms Apartments.  Shortly after the publication and failur... (Read More)

F. Scott Fitzgerald's Baltimore home is located on Park Avenue.  In 1932 the writer moved here with his wife, Zelda Sayre, so that she could be treated at Phipp's Psychiatric Clinic at Johns Hopkins.  They rented a house on th... (Read More)

Francis Scott Key's home site is on Mount Vernon Place in Baltimore, Maryland.  On January 11, 1843 the author of The Star Spangled Banner died in the mansion which stood on this site, the home of his daughter, Elizabeth and her h... (Read More)

H. L. Mencken's home is on Hollins Street in Baltimore, Maryland.  It was here the noted journalist lived from 1883 to his death in 1956.  He was born Henry Louis Mencken on September 12, 1880, to Ann Margaret and August Mencken, ... (Read More)

John Waters' home is on Morris Avenue in Lutherville, Maryland.  The cult filmmaker spent his childhood years in this Gothic Revival mansion in the Baltimore suburbs.  His film career began here when he recieved an 8mm movie camer... (Read More)

The Multiple Maniacs home is located on South Bond Street in Baltimore, Maryland.  It was at this Fell's Point home that cult director John Waters filmed exterior scenes for his 1970 film Multiple Maniacs.  After... (Read More)

Patsy Cline's home is on East Patrick Street in Frederick, Maryland.  After marrying Gerald Cline on March 7, 1953, twenty year old Virginia Patterson Hensley would officially become known as Patsy Cline.  The young couple moved i... (Read More)

Rainbow Hill is located on Park Heights Avenue in Owings Mills, Maryland.  I was here that Henrietta Louise Cromwell, the step-daughter of Philadelphia lawyer, Edward T. Stotesbury, married Walter Brooks, a Baltimore contractor.&... (Read More)

Rosa Ponselle's home is on Greenspring Valley Road in Lutherville, Maryland.  The famed soprano left performing behind her in the late 1930's, after a grueling twenty year long career.  She and her husband, Baltimore socialite... (Read More)

Ruth's Cafe is located on South Eutaw Street in Baltimore, Maryland.  It was here the former bar was located, in a space now occupied by The Goddess Gentlemen's Club.  In 1915, after the Boston Red Sox won the pennant, Babe Ru... (Read More)

St. Mary's Industrial School For Boys was located on Wilkens Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland.  It was here that young Babe Ruth lived from 1902 to 1914.  The incorrigible youth was sent here by his parents, primarily to get him off ... (Read More)

The Stafford Hotel is located on Washington Place in Baltimore, Maryland.  The hotel was designed by architect Charles E. Cassell.  The Roman brick, Richardsonian/Romanesque style building was opened in November of 1894 in the Mount V... (Read More)

The Thomas Stone House is located on Rose Hill Road in Port Tobacco, Maryland.  It is part of the Thomas Stone National Historic Site.  Stone was born in Charles County, Maryland in 1743 and would go on to become a lawyer, a delegate ... (Read More)

Wallis Simpson's home is on East Biddle Street in Baltimore, Maryland.  It was here the future Duchess of Windsor lived from 1908 to 1913.  After spending several years living with her uncle Solomon Davies Warfield, and then her a... (Read More)

Wallis Simpson's home is on East Preston Street in Baltimore, Maryland.  It was here the future duchess lived from 1896 to 1901.  Her father, Teackle Wallis Warfield, died on November 15, 1896 of tuberculosis and the five month ol... (Read More)

Woodrow Wilson's home is on Eutaw Place in the Bolton Hill section of Baltimore, Maryland.  The future president lived in this three story, red brick townhouse while attending Johns Hopkins University.  Wilson's college career... (Read More)

The Wadsworth-Longfellow House is located on Congress Street in Portland, Maine.  This two story brick home was built in 1785 by Revolutionary War General Peleg Wadsworth.  He raised 10 children in the home, including a daug... (Read More)

The Landmark Inn is located on North Front Street in Marquette, Michigan.  The historic hotel began life in 1917, when the foundation was originally laid for what would be the Hotel Northland.  Construction lasted off and on for thirt... (Read More)

The Mather Inn is located on East Canada Street in Ishpeming, Michigan.  It stands on the site of two former houses, the Baron House, built in 1875 and the Nelson House, built in 1880, both of which were constructed by Robert Nelson, the f... (Read More)

The Bonnie and Clyde hideout house is on West 34th Street in Joplin, Mo. On April 1, 1933 the Barrow gang rented this two bedroom apartment, sitting atop a stone garage, at 3347 1/2 Oak Ridge Drive, in Joplin.  The gang consisted of Clyde ... (Read More)

Ernest Hemingway's home is on Warwick Boulevard in Kansas City, Missouri.  It was here the young Hemingway, fresh out of high school, moved in 1917, taking a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star.  His Uncle Tyler li... (Read More)

Ginger Rogers' birthplace is on Moore Street in Independence, Missouri.  It was here in the home her mother rented that the actress/dancer was born Virginia Katherine McMath on July 16, 1911.  Her parents, William "Eddin... (Read More)

The Hamilton Hotel is located on Hamilton Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri.  The hotel served as the headquarters for the Cardinals during spring training of 1919. World War I had a huge impact on baseball and much revenue was lost during the... (Read More)

The Jackson County Jail and Marshal's Home and Museum is located on North Main Street in Historic Independence square in Independence, Missouri.  The brick Federal Style structure was designed by noted Kansas City architect Asa Beebe C... (Read More)

Jean Harlow's home is on East 79th Street in Kansas City, Missouri.  It was here the future screen star lived from 1919 to 1923.  She was born Harlean Carpenter on March 3, 1911, in Kansas City, to Mont Clair Carpenter and Jean Po... (Read More)

The Jefferson Hotel is located on North Tucker Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri.  The hotel became the home of St. Louis Cardinal Rogers Hornsby beginning in early 1923. In mid-1922 the infielder began an affair with Jeannette Pennington, ... (Read More)

The Jesse James Farm and Museum is located on James Farrm Road in Kearney, Missouri. Robert Sallee James, an ordained minister and his wife, Zerelda Cole, acquired this farm in Clay County, Missouri, in 1842, shortly after being ... (Read More)

The Jesse James home is on Penn Street in St. Joseph, Missouri.  It was here the famed outlaw lived for the last four months of his life.  After years spent robbing in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, in the wake of the diastrous ... (Read More)

The Jesse James home site is on Lafayette Street in St. Jospeh, Missouri.  This location was the original site of the house in which Jesse James was killed.  The home was later moved from this spot and eventually made it's way to ... (Read More)

Joan Crawford's home in Kansas city is on Campbell Street at the site of the former Rockingham Academy.  It was here the future actress lived and worked from 1919 to 1922.  She had been born in San Antonio, Texas, then moved to La... (Read More)

Rogers Hornsby's home is on Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri.  The Hall of Fame baseball player made the Harlan Courts Apartment home shortly after spring training 1919. It was here that he and his wife Sarah shared a furnished ... (Read More)

Rogers Hornsby's home is on Maple Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri.  In early 1925 the St. Louis Cardinal infielder bought this entire apartment complex, which served as home for him and his wife Jeannette. In early 1924 the couple had pu... (Read More)

The Scott Joplin House State Historic Site is located on Delmar Boulevard in St. Louis, Missouri.  The famed composer was on his way to becoming the King of Ragtime when, in 1900, he moved into the second story flat of this brick row ... (Read More)

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site is located on Grant Road in St. Louis, Missouri. This farm, known as White Haven, was the childhood home of  Julia Dent Grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant.  For the first couple years of ... (Read More)

Walt Disney's home is on Bellefontaine Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri.  In 1911, Elias Disney moved his family from Marceline, Missouri, to this home.  He purchased a newspaper delivery route for The Kansas City Star, and his son... (Read More)

The Thomas Wolfe Memorial is located on North Market Street in Asheville, North Carolina.  The home was built in 1883 by Erwin E. Sluder a banker in Asheville, North Carolina.  Julia Wolfe, the mother of Thomas Wolfe, purchased the ho... (Read More)

Frank Sinatra's birthplace site is located on Monroe Street in Hoboken, NJ.  The singer was born on December 12, 1915, in the four-story apartment building that once stood on this site.  The Sinatras were one of several families t... (Read More)

Stephen Foster's home is on Bloomfield Street in Hoboken, New Jersey.  In 1854 the composer found himself here in Hoboken, in this four story, orange brick row home.  He had broken up with his wife the year before and spent severa... (Read More)

Billy The Kid's death site is located behind the Bosque Redondo Memorial on Billy The Kid Road in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, in the Fort Sumner Historic Site.  After being captured in Stinking Springs, sentenced to hang, and escaping fro... (Read More)

The Blue Swallow Motel is located on East Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico.  Originally known as the Blue Swallow Court, it was constructed by W. A. Huggins in 1939 and first opened in 1940.  The structure consisted of 12 units in an... (Read More)

The Cactus Motor Lodge is located on East Route 66 in Tucumcari, New Mexico.  The original buildings were constructed in the Pueblo Revival Style by I.E. and Edna Perry in 1941.  The motel consists of three wings in a U shape and a ma... (Read More)

The El Rancho Hotel is located on East Highway 66 in Gallup, New Mexico.  It was built in 1937 for R.E. Griffith, brother of famed film director D.W. Griffith.  He felt that the area was a perfect setting for westerns, and filmmakers ... (Read More)

34 Gramercy Park is an apartment building located across from Gramercy park in New York City.  It was constructed in 1883 as the city's first cooperative.  The Renaissance Revival style building is made of red brick and red terra cotta with bro... (Read More)

Alex Haley's home is located on Grove Street in New York City's Greenwich Village.  It was here the Pulitzer Prize winning author lived during the 1960's and produced his first book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X.&nbs... (Read More)

The All in the Family house is located on Cooper Avenue in Queens, New York.  On the final shot of the opening credits this house is seen as the home of Archie and Edith Bunker.  The address on the show was the fictitious 704 Hauser St... (Read More)

Anita Loos' home is on West 57th Street in New York City.  The author, screenwriter and playwright lived in this apartment building for the last 25 years of her life.  She had originally moved to New York in 1918 to work for Famous Players-Lask... (Read More)

Babe Ruth's home is located on West 88th Street in NYC.  After marrying at nearby St. Gregory the Great Church on April 17, 1929, Babe Ruth and his new wife, Claire Hodgson, called the entire 7th floor of this New York City&n... (Read More)

Babe Ruth's home in the early 1940's was this apartment on Riverside Drive on the Upper West Side of New York City. After leaving their apartment on 88th Street, Ruth and his second wife, Claire moved into this building and would remain... (Read More)

Babe Ruth's final home was this apartment on Riverside Drive in NYC. He lived here from 1942 until his death in 1948. He shared this 11th floor apartment on the Upper West Side with his wife, Claire, and spending much of his time ... (Read More)

Big Pink is located on Parnassas Lane in Saugerties, New York.  It was the home in which Bob Dylan and The Band wrote and recorded music in 1967.  The newly built home was originally owned by Ottmar Gramms at what was then 2188 Stoll ... (Read More)

Boris Karloff's home is on East 66th Street in New York City.  He had been living at the Lombardy Hotel with his wife Dorothy since December, 1940, when he had arrived in New York to begin rehearsals for Arsenic and Old Lace.&... (Read More)

Boris Karloff's home is located on East 62nd Street in New York City.  It was here the actor moved in December of 1941 for the final duration of his run in Arsenic and Old Lace on Broadway.  During his time here he was an... (Read More)

Clara Bow's home is on 73rd Street in Brooklyn, New York. The future actress was born in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn in 1905.  She lived in various homes in the area, not far from where she was born.  A portion o... (Read More)

The Darwin D. Martin House is located on Jewett Parkway in Buffalo, New York.  It is an important Prairie School era Frank Lloyd Wright complex, said to be one of his finest creations.  Darwin Martin and his brother, William E. Martin... (Read More)

E.B. White's home is on East 48th Street in New York City.  It was here the writer and his wife, New Yorker magazine fiction editor Katharine Sergeant, lived from 1945 to 1957.  This was the third home on 48th Street that... (Read More)

E.B. White's home is on East 48th Street.  He lived here with his wife, New Yorker editor Katharine Sergeant, from 1938 to 1945.  White lived in three houses on 48th Street between 1936 and 1957, this being the second.&nb... (Read More)

Edgar Allan Poe’s home in New York City is located at the intersection of West 84th StreetRead More)

Edgar Allan Poe’s home in New York City is located at the intersection of West 84th StreetRead More)

Edgar Allan Poe's home site is located on West 3rd Street in New York City.  It was here the celebrated author lived from 1845 to 1846.  Fresh off the success - literary, not financial - of "The Raven," Poe bought an int... (Read More)

Edna St. Vincent Millay's home is on Bedford Street in New York City.  The Pulitzer Prize winning poet lived at this Greenwich Village address from 1923 to 1924 with her new husband, Eugen Jan Boissevain.  As a member of the Provi... (Read More)

George Eastman brought photography into the homes of everyday people with his invention of the Kodak camera in 1888 and the Brownie camera in 1900.  In 1903 he began construction of this 50 room  mansion in Rochester, New York, finish... (Read More)

Helen Morgan's home is on East 18th Street in Brooklyn, New York.  The actress Helen Morgan began her career as a torch singer in Chicago speakeasies in the early 1920's.  She went on to fame in the original Broadway productio... (Read More)

Humphrey Bogart's birthplace is on West 103rd Street in New York City's Upper West Side.  The film legend was born in this apartment on December 25, 1899.  He lived here with his parents, Dr. Belmont DeForest Bogart,  a s... (Read More)

Humphrey Bogart's home is on East 52nd Street in New York City.  He shared an apartment in this building with his second wife Mary Philips.  After more than ten years of performing on the stage and, more recently, in films the act... (Read More)

Ira Gershwin's birthplace is on Eldridge Street in New York City.  The future Pulitzer Prize winning lyricist was born Israel Gershowitz in this lower East Side tenement building on December 6, 1896. He was the oldest of four chil... (Read More)

The Iroquois Hotel is located on West 44th Street in New York City.  The hotel was designed by architect Harry Mulliken and completed in October of 1900.  On July 26, 1911, the most infamous incident in the hotel's history occurre... (Read More)

James Dean's home is on West 68th Street in New York City.  He lived in a small, top floor apartment from late 1953 until April 1954.  From 1951 to 1953 Dean had been mainly acting in televesion programs and working on his acting ... (Read More)

Jimi Hendrix's home is on Traver Hollow Road in Boiceville, New York.  It was here the famed guitarist lived during the summer of 1969.  Hendrix took residence here intially to find some solitude while he worked on a new album.&nb... (Read More)

Jimmi Hendrix's home is on West 12th Street in New York City.  Although for much of the 1960s the famed musician  stayed at various locations throughout New York City, he never owned his own place.  That changed when he ... (Read More)

John Barrymore's home is on Gramercy Park East in New York City.  The actor moved into an apartment in this building in 1910, shortly after marrying his first wife, actress Katherine Corri Harris.  Their relationship was strained ... (Read More)

John Barrymore's home is on West 4th Street in New York City.  The actor lived in the penthouse of this red brick apartment, near Washington Square in Greenwich Village, from 1917 - 1920.  During his time here he switched between ... (Read More)

John coltrane's home is on Candlewood Path in Dix Hills, New York. This was the jazz legend's Long Island home from 1964 until his death in 1967.  He moved here shortly after leaving his first wife, Naima, in 1963.  He met pia... (Read More)

John Garfield's death site is at Gramercy Park West in New York City. It was here, at the apartment of friend Iris Whitney, that the actor passed away. He had been blacklisted by Hollywood following his testimony before The House Un-America... (Read More)

John Lennon's home in New York City is on Bank Street. He and Yoko Ono lived here from 1971 to 1973. Wanting to distance themselves from The Beatles and the controversy surrounding their breakup, Lennon and Ono moved to New York in August o... (Read More)

John Steinbeck's home is located on Gramercy Park North in New York City.  The young author came to New York in 1925 with the intention of publishing his short stories and to that end he rented a sixth floor apartment in this building ... (Read More)

John Steinbeck's home is on East 51st Street in New York City.  The author moved here, in the ground floor apartment, in the summer of 1943 with his second wife Gwyn Conger.  For much of the time Steinbeck served as a war correspo... (Read More)

Katharine Hepburn's home in New York City is on East 49th Street. The screen legend called this Turtle Bay Gardens townhouse her home from 1931 until the mid-90's.  She was married in 1928 to Ludlow Ogden Smith, later to be called ... (Read More)

Lauren Bacall's home is on Bank Street in New York City.  She moved into this Greenwich Village apartment building with her mother Natalie in the early 40's.  While living here she had a walk on part in the Broadway play J... (Read More)

Lillian Gish's home is on East 57th Street in New York City.  The actress spent the last fifty years of her life in this apartment.  She began her film career in 1912 and worked initially for director D. W. Griffith both in New Yo... (Read More)

Lorraine Hansberry's home is on Waverly Place in New York City.  The noted playwright bought this building in 1960 and lived here until her death in 1965.  She first came to New York from Madison, Wisconsin, in 1950 with the inten... (Read More)

Lou Gehrig's birthplace site is located on East 94th Street in New York City.  The famed New York Yankee first baseman was allegedly born in an upper east side tenement building which formerly stood on this spot, at what was then 242 E... (Read More)