Edgar W. Howe House
1117 North 3rd Street, Atchison, Kansas
Built 1880, for Edgar Watson Howe (1853-1937) and his wife Clara L. Frank (b.1846). This large, square, spacious red brick house with white stone trim, a three storey tower and large verandah was built soon after Howe's unhappy marriage that later culminated in divorce. It stood on a green bluff surrounded by elms and maples planted by Ed Howe. It was here that his children were born and here that the author wrote the essays and aphorisms that made his name as an editor.
His colorful guest list included Senator John James Ingalls (1833-1900); Alice Luann Moore (1861-1915), better known as the writer Alice Moore Hubbard and wife of Elbert Green Hubbard (1856-1915); Amelia Mary Earhart (1897-1937), the wife of George Palmer Putnam (1887-1950); Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956); and, William Allen White (1868-1944).
After the death of his wife, from 1910 his niece Adelaide Howe (1888-1967) - for whom the Lady A Magazine was later named - became his secretary and travelling companion on his world tours. When Edgar Howe died in 1937, he left the house and $50,000 from his estate to Adelaide who kept the fourteen rooms with his books, prints, pipes, old Corona typewriter and other personal belongings exactly as they had been when he was alive. She remained there until her death in 1967. In 1972, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
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