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in June 1884 and purchased two plots of land on Pequot Avenue for his wife Ella's 27th birthday. The property included a cottage built in the 1840s which he expanded. It is now a two-story house, three bays wide with a porch that wraps around the front to the north side. A tower with pyramidal
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As a child, Eugene spent much of the year traveling with his actor father touring from city to city, but the family returned to this cottage each summer. It was named for the
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in which his father starred in touring productions for many years. O'Neill probably wrote his first two plays here, and it is the setting of his plays
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roof stands just beyond the porch on the north side. It was the principal family residence during Eugene O'Neill's childhood.
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purchased it in 1976 and operates it as a historic house museum, furnished to appear as it might have for the setting of
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Novel Destinations: Literary Landmarks from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Heminway's Key West
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

Monte Cristo Cottage is located in Connecticut
Monte Cristo Cottage is located in the United States
New London, Connecticut
41°19′55″N 72°5′46.5″W / 41.33194°N 72.096250°W / 41.33194; -72.096250
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James O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill
National Historic Landmark
New London, Connecticut
New London, Connecticut
play
Ah, Wilderness!
Long Day's Journey into Night
National Historic Landmark
Eugene O'Neill Theater Center
Anna Christie

List of National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut
National Register of Historic Places listings in New London County, Connecticut
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
National Park Service


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