John Cheever Residence

  • Also Known As: Afterwhiles
  • John Cheever called it: Grecian Earn
  • Also Known As: Meanwhiles

  • Address: 197 Cedar Ln
  • Vicinity: N of Briarcliff-Peekskill Pkwy
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building


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Timeline

Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1795/00/00 Cheever House is built.
1921/00/00 Eric Gugler Architect Cheever House is completely renovated.
1961/02/00 John Cheever Home The Cheevers move into their Ossining, New York, home. John wasn't able to get a mortgage without a guarantor on the $37,500 loan.
1963/00/00 In early 1963, the Cheevers are presented with a cat name Delmore by Josie Herbst. Delmore takes to relieving himself in a box of Kleenex. After John wipes the cat shit off his face, he drop-kicks Delmore out the kitchen door.
1964/00/00 John Cheever Author An avid swimmer himself, John Cheever writes "The Swimmer" over two months at his home in Ossining, New York. He typically only spends a few days writing a short story. The Swimmer (Short Story)
1982/06/18 John Cheever Died John Cheever, whose poised, elegant prose established him as one of America's finest storytellers, dies at his home in Ossining, NY. He is buried at First Parish Cemetery, Norwell, Mass.
2014/04/07 Mary Cheever, a central figure in a family of prominent American writers whose most notable member was her husband, John, with whom she had a relationship as complex as those he wrote about, dies at the home they had shared in Ossining, NY. She was 95.

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Particulars for John Cheever Residence:
Area of Significance Architecture
Sight Category Building
Architectural Style Dutch Colonial
Building Type House
Criteria Person
Owner Private
Historic Use Single dwelling




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