[>] custom-designed apartments: “Two Hundred Feet.”
[>] the crown imperial: Pellarin, Life of Charles Fourier, 212.
[>] “more capable”: “The Apartment House from a New Point of View,” Real Estate Record and Guide (April 7, 1883): 136.
[>] “build tremendous stairs”: Ibid.
[>] “Refused”: Phillips’ Elite Directory, W. Phillips & Company, 1887, 1888, NYHS.
2. The Coast Of Bohemia
[>] a great variety of ways: W. D. Howells to William C. Howells, April 29, 1888, Howells Collection, HL.
[>] “ten stories high”: Ibid.
[>] Bronson Howard: David G. Bareuther, “The Hotel Chelsea,” New York Sun, September 13, 1930.
[>] Gustave’s wife, Marie: Cornelia Santomenna, e-mail to the author, February 24, 2009.
[>] imported French chef: Hawes, New York, New York, 61.
[>] Mrs. Blake: “Chelsea Association,” New York City Census (1890), NYPL.
[>] William Damon: Brunner, Ocean at Home, 71.
[>] John Ellis: “Chelsea Association,” New York City Census (1890), NYPL.
[>] machine lubricant Valvoline: “A History of Innovation: Valvoline,” Construction Week Online (May 31, 2011); http://www.construction weekonline.com/article-12605-a-history-of-innovation-valvoline/#.ZZKUkqp21w.
[>] William Tilden, dissolute heir: “Settling William Tilden’s Estate,” New York Times, October 17, 1883.
[>] Clemens had been ducking in and out: Twain, Mark Twain’s Notebooks.
[>] city leaders’ decision: Hawes, New York, New York, 65.
[>] create a utopian community: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 15–16.
[>] Elinor’s mother had been implicated: Ibid., 62.
[>] “unwed mothers”: Allen, Solitary Singer, 262.
[>] self-righteously rejected: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 57.
[>] “friend of cab drivers”: Reynolds, Walt Whitman’s America, 100. 100.
[>] warm, gentle handshake: William Dean Howells, “First Impressions of Literary New York,” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine (June 1895): 65. (June 1895): 65.
[>] “confounded literary telescope”: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 147.
[>] “plump and with ease”: Ibid., 193.
[>] “mysterious prejudices”: Ibid., 207.
[>] as a business: Howells, Literature and Life, 76.
[>] “hire one half”: William Grimes, “Looking Back in Anger at the Gilded Age’s Excesses,” New York Times, April 18, 2007.
[>] “Hi! Ho!”: Burrows and Wallace, Gotham, 1105.
[>] backer, Philip Hubert: Ibid., 1107.
[>] took a research trip: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 288.
[>] for their political opinions: William Dean Howells to Editor, New York Tribune, November 12, 1877.
[>] not James Lowell: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 281.
[>] a curt reminder: Ibid.
[>] “share the labor”: Ibid., 286.
“seeing that I’m”: Ibid.
[>] “very humbly and simply”: Howells, Life in Letters, 403–4.
[>] “most beautiful”: Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes, 143.
[>] “It was better”: Ibid., 66.
[>] Reverend George Hepworth: Ward, George H. Hepworth, 237.
[>] philanthropist J. Sanford Saltus: “The Social World,” New York Times, November 2, 1894.
[>] Laura Sedgwick Collins: “To the Lyceum School Alumni,” New York Dramatic Mirror, July 25, 1892.
[>] fondness for visual artists: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 240.
[>] Dewey, a gregarious landscape painter: David Adams Cleveland, “Charles Melville Dewey: A Forgotten Master of Classic Tonalism,” Antiques (November 2009).
[>] weekly dinner parties: Bareuther, “The Hotel Chelsea.”
[>] John Francis Murphy: Hudson River Museum, J. Francis Murphy, 9.
[>] Rehn, the wealthy son: “F.K.M. Rehn, Artist, Dies,” New York Times, July 8, 1914.
[>] vast, richly adorned: Howells, Coast of Bohemia, 126.
[>] Chatting enthusiastically: Emerson C. Kelly, “J. F. Murphy: Tints of a Vanished Past” (unpublished manuscript), Emerson C. Kelly/J. Francis Murphy Collection, roll no. 4341, SAAA.
[>] frescoing their tenement walls: Howells, The Coast of Bohemia, 208.
[>] more of their attention: Brooks, John Sloan, 79.
[>] “small dressmakers”: Brooks, Confident Years, 8.
[>] odd assortment: Ibid., 7.
[>] reviewed for Harper’s: W. D. Howells, “Editor’s Study,” Harper’s Monthly (June 1888): 154–55.
[>] “Surely I had never”: Bellamy, Looking Backward, 25.
[>] “allegorical romance”: Howells, “Editor’s Study,” 154.
[>] gentlemen and beggars: McCabe, New York by Gaslight, 153.
[>] “the seats were very insecure”: Bellamy, Looking Backward, 7.
[>] “dose of undiluted socialism”: Howells, “Editor’s Study,” 154.
[>] respectable brownstone: William Dean Howells to William C. Howells, September 29, 1888, HL.
[>] “higher prices”: Fraser and Gerstle, Ruling America, 161.
[>] “The responsibility upon us”: Joseph Schiffman, “Mutual Indebtedness: Unpublished Letters of Edward Bellamy to William Dean Howells,” Harvard Library Bulletin 12 (Autumn 1958): 363–74.
[>] “to lie”: “Mr. Howells on Realism,” New York Tribune, July 10, 1887.
[>] “more in earnest”: William Dean Howells to Miss Florence M. Carter, August 8, 1911, HL.
[>] deep-toned paintings: Kelly, “J. F. Murphy.”
[>] Edward Eggleston’s daughter: Ibid.
[>] Bruce Crane: Ibid.
[>] Charles Naegele: Ibid.
[>] John Straiton: “To Irrigate Arid Lands,” New York Times, May 13, 1893.
[>] Ritter sisters: “Conveyances, 222 West 23rd Street: The Chelsea Leases to Ida P. Ritter,” New York City Department of Finance, Office of the Register, May 29, 1896.
[>] Charles G. Wilson: Ibid.
[>] Nineteenth Century Club: “Daniel G. Thompson Dead,” New York Times, July 11, 1897.
[>] Childe Hassam, an acquaintance: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 226.
[>] Chelsea’s apartment-studios: Weinberg, Childe Hassam, 87.
[>] “the exuberant spirit”: Mariana G. Van Rensselaer, “Fifth Avenue, with Pictures by Hassam,” Century (November 1893): 15.
[>] Founded by Jeanette Meyers Thurber: Tibbetts, Dvořák, 53.
[>] African-American and disabled: Ibid., 57.
[>] among those chosen: Karen A. Shaffer and Anya Laurence, “Jeannette Thurber, National Conservatory of Music Founder,” Maud Powell Signature 2, no. 1 (April 1997).
[>] “voice of the people”: Tibbetts, Dvořák, 113.
[>] “the American voice”: Ibid., 361.
[>] “The negro in America”: “Real Value of Negro Melodies; Dvorak Finds in Them the Basis for an American School of Music,” New York Sunday Herald, May 12, 1893.
[>] “That is as great”: Tibbetts, Dvořák, 131.
[>] “literally saturated himself”: Ibid.
[>] Williams Arms Fisher: Ibid., 132.
[>] “We have not begun”: “In Whitelaw Reid’s Honor,” New York Times, April 10, 1892.
[>] a million-dollar “Spectatorium”: “Steele MacKaye: Theatrical Innovator,” New York Times, October 30, 1927.
[>] power of the arts: Brooks, Confident Years, 144.
[>] apartment on West Fifty-Ninth: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 338.
[>] to three-fourths: Brooks, Confident Years, 120.
[>] “green shoots”: Ibid., 18.
[>] “a vague, high faith”: Howells, The Coast of Bohemia, 108.
[>] “where I live”: Ibid., 127.
[>] “eight or ten steps”: Ibid., 128.
[>] “hoped to be saved”: Ib
id., 3.
[>] “quaint old rookery”: Ibid., 105–6.
[>] “Congratulate yourselves”: Davis, Badge of Courage, 74.
[>] “behaving ungratefully”: W. D. Howells to William C. Howells, April 12, 1892, William Dean Howells Collection, HL.
[>] writer Hamlin Garland: Wertheim and Sorrentino, Crane Log, 85.
[>] “little creed of art”: Davis, Badge of Courage, 82.
[>] reading of Zola: Wertheim and Sorrentino, Crane Log, 75.
[>] view of the Blackwell’s Island: Ibid., 81.
[>] arrested for vagrancy: Davis, Badge of Courage, 57.
[>] “dust-stained walls”: Crane, Great Short Works, 145.
[>] “the drunk, so familiar”: Ibid., 142.
[>] reading it conspicuously: Davis, Badge of Courage, 59.
[>] “No one would see it”: Ibid., 60.
[>] “something like an anachronism”: Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes, 266.
[>] invited Crane to tea: Wertheim and Sorrentino, Crane Log, 62.
[>] “high intellectual revels”: Sorrentino, Dictionary of Literary Biography, 153.
[>] “stooping like a race”: Crane, Best Short Stories, 111.
[>] “wrapped to the chin”: Howells, Literature and Life, 127.
[>] “live!”: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 327.
[>] unheated top-floor loft: Sloan, John Sloan’s New York Scene, 68–69.
[>] 165 West Twenty-Third: Davis, Badge of Courage, 130.
[>] “it must be interesting”: Brooks, Confident Years, 139.
[>] began to wonder: S. Dennis, “The World of Chance: Howell’s Hawthornian Self-Parody,” American Literature (May 1980): 279–93.
[>] “their private railway-cars”: Brooks, The Confident Years, 72.
[>] “wicked, wanton”: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 339.
[>] “I am an anti-imperialist”: “Mark Twain Home, an Anti-Imperialist,” New York Herald, October 15, 1900.
[>] “court-intrigues in imaginary countries”: Goodman and Dawson, William Dean Howells, 342.
[>] “hideousness of carnage”: “‘Ready’ for War,” Nation 66, no. 1708 (March 24, 1898): 218.
[>] newly impoverished widow: “Mrs. Origen Vandenburg [sic] Arrested,” New York Times, February 23, 1894.
[>] Buddington, a retired physician: “Handcuffed, Then Struck,” New York Times, November 25, 1892.
[>] Campbell was elected to the U.S. House: “Death of Andrew J. Campbell,” New York Times, December 7, 1894.
[>] trading their artwork: Kelly, “J. F. Murphy.”
[>] “filled with people”: Crane, Great Short Works, 176.
[>] “an endless crowd”: Ibid.
[>] “electric lights, whirring”: Ibid., 181.
[>] “atmosphere of pleasure”: Ibid., 182.
[>] “into darker blocks”: Ibid., 183.
[>] “small coin”: Brooks, America’s Coming-of-Age, 118.
3. Four Saints In Three Acts
[>] late-October: Donald, Look Homeward, 426.
[>] Chelsea to work: Francis X. Clines, “About New York: The Chelsea Is Still a Roof for Creative Heads,” New York Times, February 4, 1978.
[>] Rumors had circulated: Donald, Look Homeward, 376–77.
[>] cut in half: Ibid., 296–97.
[>] decades past the apex: E. L. Masters, Across Spoon River, vii.
[>] “damn pigeon-holers”: Brooks, John Sloan, 211.
[>] editor became more difficult: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 92–93.
[>] “For Christ’s sake!”: Richard R. Lingeman, “Where Home Is Where It Is,” New York Times Book Review, December 24, 1967.
[>] Spoon River and its aftermath: Brooks, John Sloan, 60.
[>] to take the hide: Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, 313.
[>] “one of the great”: Donald, Look Homeward, 444.
[>] receding hairline: Ibid., 364.
[>] “My voice may be funny”: George Davis, “Theatre,” Decision (June 1941): 21.
[>] Isadora Duncan: “The Dowager of Twenty-Third Street,” Cue (March 8, 1952).
[>] Chelsea Association: “Old Chelsea Changes on Former Ekford Farm,” New York Times, November 14, 1920.
[>] a former maid’s chamber: Hotel Chelsea brochure (1905), and “Handy Guide to New York City” (advertisement), Rand McNally, 1909.
[>] Miss Almyra Wilcox: “Woman Dies in Hotel, Took Drug for Sleep,” New York Times, February 3, 1908.
[>] artist Frank Kavecky: “Robbed of His Funds, Treasurer a Suicide,” New York Times, October 26, 1909.
[>] Titanic disaster: “Women Work Hard for Rescued Folk,” New York Times, April 21, 1912.
[>] “The night grows gray”: S. F. Kneeland, Random Reveries of a Busy Barrister, 13–14.
[>] Association members: “Encumbrances,” 222 West 23rd Street, Block 00772, Lot 0064, New York City Department of Finance, Office of the City Register, October 11, 1922.
[>] yellowed leases: David G. Bareuther, “The Hotel Chelsea,” New York Sun, September 13, 1930.
[>] Knott Corporation: Evening Mail, March 19, 1921, NYHS.
[>] the Earle, the Judson: “James Knott, Founder of the Knott System,” New York Hotel Record, September 11, 1906, NYHS.
[>] pet-shop monkey: “Lion Bites, Monkey Fights, Rat Runs,” New York Times, August 17, 1922.
[>] Greenwich Village–based empire: Bareuther, “The Hotel Chelsea.”
[>] jury-rigged kitchenettes: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 37.
[>] flowered wallpaper: Stanley Bard, interview with the author, November 30, 2007.
[>] roller-skated through the lobby: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 41.
[>] the lobby spittoon: Ibid., 35.
series of murals: “Political Murals Rouse Controversy,” New York Times, November 23, 1934, Hotel Collection, NYHS.
[>] “calculated to poison”: E. L. Masters, Across Spoon River, 410.
[>] Clarence Darrow: Hardin Wallace Masters, Edgar Lee Masters, 13.
[>] “as solitary”: Brooks, Confident Years, 9.
[>] a switchboard operator: Hardin Wallace Masters, Edgar Lee Masters, 88.
[>] ailanthus trees: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 3.
[>] living out of steamer trunks: Ibid., 101–2.
[>] “posh bohemian”: Lingeman, “Where Home Is Where It Is.”
[>] create the life: Brooks, Early Years, 179.
[>] “the most peaceful”: E. L. Masters, Across Spoon River, 397.
[>] wife, Ellen, objected: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 35.
[>] wisecracking elevator operator: Hardin Wallace Masters, Edgar Lee Masters, 47.
[>] bedbug infestations: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 35, 41.
[>] flashing green eyes: Ibid., 15.
[>] click of her high heels: Ibid., 101.
[>] “God-a-Mighty”: Donald, Look Homeward, 249.
[>] west end of the eighth floor: Cathleen Miller, “Chelsea Moaning: In NYC, Bunk with the Ghosts of America’s Greatest Drunks, Dreamers and Other Artists,” Washington Post, January 24, 1999.
[>] “as big as a skating rink”: Donald, Look Homeward, 426.
[>] spacious bathroom with its toilet: Turner, At the Chelsea, 7.
[>] $34.67 per week: Donald, Look Homeward, 426.
[>] the rumors: Ibid., 351.
[>] Perkins’s failure to offer: Ibid., 406.
[>] “October Fair”: Ibid., 393.
[>] the fascinating diversity: Ibid., 347.
[>] give it up: Ibid., 351.
[>] “The Vision of Spangler’s Paul”: Ibid., 378–79.
[>] would have to resign: Ibid., 382.
[>] “great creative energy”: Bruccoli and Bucker, To Loot My Life Clean, 244.
[>] fled to Germany: Donald, Look Homeward, 384.
[>] “I am going to write”: Nowell, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 587.
[>] ten-thousand-dollar advance: Donald, Look Homeward, 424.
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[>] crate full of manuscripts: Nowell, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, 739.
[>] “horror of our self-betrayal”: Donald, Look Homeward, 438.
[>] “He might have called”: E. L. Masters, Mark Twain, 250.
[>] “with a clown’s reward”: Ibid., 251.
[>] One friend at the Chelsea: Brooks, John Sloan, 199.
[>] urged the young illustrators: Ibid., 20.
[>] what they felt: Ibid., 19.
[>] Henry George, Edward Bellamy: Ibid.
[>] Henri moved to New York: Loughery, John Sloan, 48.
[>] Dolly Wall: Ibid., 49–50.
[>] fell in love with the city: Brooks, John Sloan, 41.
[>] a portrait of the Chelsea: Loughery, John Sloan, 84.
[>] 165 West Twenty-Third Street: Sloan, John Sloan’s New York Scene, 8.
[>] he remained largely ignorant: Brooks, John Sloan, 18.
[>] series of art exhibitions: Ibid., 71.
[>] the Eight: Sloan, John Sloan’s New York Scene, 4.
[>] “apostles of ugliness”: Brooks, John Sloan, 226.
[>] “Sloan’s socialist painting”: Charles Wisner Barrell, “New York Life,” Craftsman (February 1909): 65.
[>] subjecting his friends: Brooks, John Sloan, 87.
[>] the Socialist Party: Loughery, John Sloan, 154.
[>] becoming art director: Ibid., 177.
[>] “all the variety”: Brooks, The Confident Years, 486.
[>] had drawn Dolly out: Loughery, John Sloan, 164.
[>] the dramatic panache: Ibid., 172.
[>] dinners with the activists: Ibid., 169.
[>] offer from David Belasco: Flynn, The Rebel Girl, 64.
[>] “You’ll get the pie”: IWW, The Little Red Song Book, 15.
[>] Sloan came to love: Brooks, John Sloan, 223.
[>] dietary fads: Loughery, John Sloan, 327.
[>] the Victrola: Hilary Masters, Last Stands, 32.
[>] “an amphora”: Ibid., xi.
[>] “have not been off Manhattan”: Edgar Lee Masters to unidentified recipient, correspondence fragment, HRC.
[>] make it illegal: Brooks, John Sloan, 208.
[>] “Pageant of the Paterson Strike”: Loughery, John Sloan, 194.
[>] “The Mills Alive”: Green, New York 1913, 201.
[>] “some of the most stupidly ugly”: Perlman, Lives, Loves, and Art, 231.
[>] an engaged artistic life: Brooks, John Sloan, 135.
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