Literary
Museums in the United States
| Alphabetical List
these 111 museums are catalogued for the
first time |
|
Literary
museum: home in which an author has lived, worked or is dedicated
to him/her and is now opened to the public. We also list some of
the major study centers, keepers of original material. You can also
consult the list of authors (84) linked to the museum(s). Click
on any underlined museum name to access its page. Visit the Edgar
Allan Poe Cottage
at Fordham: a richly documented museum entry. |
| A
| B | C | D | E
| F | G | H | I
| J | K | L | M
| N | O | P | Q
| R | S | T | U
| V | W | X | Y | Z |
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Aldrich
House, now part of the Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
(Literary
& Monographic Museum [Thomas
Bailey Aldrich,
American poet, novelist and editor - 1836-1907]) |
| American
Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, NY |
| Anne
Spencer Memorial Foundation, Inc. (The), Lynchburg, Virginia |
| Archer
M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas |
| Armstrong
Browning Library, Waco, Texas |
| |
Bayou
Folk Museum (The) - Kate Chopin House, Cloutierville, Louisiana |
| Beauregard-Keyes
House, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Booth-Napa
Valley State Park, Calistoga, California |
| Burlington
County Historical Society, Burlington, New Jersey |
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C |
Carl
Sandburg Home National Historic Site, Flat Rock, North Carolina |
| Carl
Sandburg State Historic Site, Galesburg, Illinois |
| Casemate
Museum, Fort Monroe, Virginia |
| Cedarmere,
Roslyn Harbor, New York |
| Chemung
Valley History Museum, Elmira, New York |
| Christopher
Morley Knothole, Roslyn, New York |
| |
Edgar
Allan Poe Cottage at Fordham, The Bronx, New York
(Biographical. Historic House, Literary Museum) |
| Edgar
Allan Poe House and Museum, Baltimore, Maryland |
| Edgar
Allan Poe Museum, Richmond, Virginia |
| Edgar
Allan Poe National Historic Site, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Edwin
Arlington Robinson Home - MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire |
| Emily
Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, Massachusetts |
| Ernest
Hemingway House Museum, Key West, Florida |
| Ernest
Hemingway Museum, Oak Park, Illinois |
| Eugene
O'Neill Memorial, Wethersfield, Connecticut |
| Eugene
O'Neill National Historic Site, Danville, California |
| F |
Falaise,
Port Washington, New York |
| Falmouth
Historical Society, Falmouth, Massachusetts |
| Flannery
O'Connor Childhood Home, Savannah, Georgia |
| Fruitlands
Museums, Harvard, Massachusetts |
| |
Gene
Stratton-Porter Historic Site, Rome City, Indiana |
| |
Hamlin
Garland Homestead, West Salem, Wisconsin |
| Harriet
Beecher Stowe Center, Hartford, Connecticut |
| Harriett
Beecher Stowe House, Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Harry
Ransom Humanities Research Center - University of TX, Austin, Texas
|
| Helen
Hunt Jackson Home - Colorado Springs Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Helen
Keller Birthplace, Tuscumbia, Alabama |
| Hemingway
Birthplace House, Oak Park, Illinois |
| Hemingway-Pfeiffer
Museum and Educational Center (The), Piggott, Arkansas |
| Herman
Melville House - Arrowhead, Pittsfield, Massachusetts |
| Historic
Hudson Valley, Tarrytown, New York |
| House
of the Seven Gables, Salem, Massachusetts |
| |
Jack
London State Historic Park, Glen Ellen, California |
| Jack
London Yukon Cabin, Oakland, California |
| James
A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania |
| James
Thurber House, Columbus, Ohio |
| James
Whitcomb Riley Birthplace and Museum, Greenfield, Indiana |
| James
Whitcomb Riley Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana |
| John
Fox, Jr. Museum (The), Big Stone Gap, Virginia |
| John
G. Neihardt State Historique Site, Bancroft, Nebraska |
| John
Greenleaf Whittier Birthplace, Haverhill, Massachusetts |
| John
Greenleaf Whittier Home, Amesbury, Massachusetts |
| John
Muir National Historic Site, Martinez, California |
| John
Steinbeck Memorial Museum, Pacific Grove, California |
| L |
Laughing
Brook Education Center & Wildlife Sanctuary, Hampden, Massachusetts |
| Laura
Ingalls Wilder Memorial Society, Inc., De Smet, South Dakota |
| Laura
Ingalls Wilder Park & Museum, Burr Oak, Iowa |
| Laura
Ingalls Wilder-Rose Wilder Lane Museum & Home, Mansfield, Missouri
|
| Lawrence
Ranch & Shrine, San Cristobal, New Mexico |
| Limberlost
State Historic Park, Geneva, Indiana |
| Longfellow
National Historic Site, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| M |
Malabar
Farm State Park-Lucas, Ohio |
| Marjorie
Kinnan Rawlings State Historic Site, Cross Creek, Florida |
| Mark
Twain Birthplace State Historic Site, Stoutsville, Missouri |
|
Mark Twain Home and Museum, Hannibal, Missouri |
| Mark
Twain Memorial, Hartford, Connecticut |
| Martin
Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Changes, Inc., Atlanta,
Georgia |
| Mary
Gay House, Decatur, Georgia |
| Monte
Cristo Cottage, New London, Connecticut |
| N |
Nassau
County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York |
New
York Public Library, Pforzheimer Collection (The), New York, New York,
|
| O |
O.
Henry House, San Antonio, Texas |
| O.
Henry Museum, Austin, Texas |
| Old
Manse, Concord, Massachusetts |
| Orchard
House, Concord, Massachusetts |
| |
Paul
Laurence Dunbar State Memorial (The), Dayton, Ohio |
| Pearl
S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, Marlinton, West Virginia |
| Pearl
S. Buck House (The), Perkasie, Pennsylvania |
| |
Rachel
Carson Homestead, Springdale, Pennsylvania |
| Ralph
Waldo Emerson House, Concord, Massachusetts |
| Robert
Frost Farm, Derry, New Hampshire |
| Robert
Louis Stevenson House, Monterey, California |
| Robert
Louis Stevenson Memorial Cottage, Saranac Lake, New York |
| Robert
Louis Stevenson Silverado Museum, Saint Helena, California |
| Rosenbach
Museum and Library, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Rowan
Oak, University, Mississippi |
|
S |
Sarah
Orne Jewett House, South Berwick, Maine |
| Scott
and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum, Montgomery, Alabama |
| Sharlot
Hall Museum Complex, Prescott, Arizona |
| Sidney
Lanier Cottage, Macon, Georgia |
| Sinclair
Lewis Boyhood Home Museum, Sauk Centre, Minnesota |
| Sinclair
Lewis Museum and Interpretive Center, Sauk Centre, Minnesota |
| Steinbeck
Center Foundation, Salinas, California |
| Steinbeck
House, Salinas, California |
| Sunnyside
National Historic Landmark, Irvington, New York |
| |
The
Mount - Edith Wharton Home, Lenox, Massachusetts |
| Theodore
Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, New York |
| Theodore
Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site, Buffalo, New York |
| Thomas
Wolfe Memorial, Asheville, North Carolina |
| Thoreau
Society, Lincoln, Massachusetts |
| Thornton
W. Burgess Museum, Sandwich, Massachusetts |
| Tower
Fine Arts Gallery (SUNY Brockport), Brockport, New York |
| |
Vachel
Lindsay House, Springfield, Illinois |
| |
Wadsworth-Longfellow
House, Portland, Maine |
| Walt
Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site, Huntington Station, New York
|
| Walt
Whitman House, Camden, New Jersey |
| Weeden
House Museum (The), Huntsville, Alabama |
| Willa
Cather Historical Center-Nebraska State Historical Society, Red Cloud,
Nebaska |
| William
Cullen Bryant Homestead, Cummington, Massachusetts |
| William
H. Prescott House, Boston, Massachusetts |
| William
Holmes McGuffey House and Museum, Oxford, Ohio |
| Wren's
Nest, Atlanta, Georgia |
| |
Zane
Grey Museum, Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania |
