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
Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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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. |
Particulars for John Cheever Residence: | |
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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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