Cambridge , Massachusetts
Where did Elinor Mead Howells live between Jan 1868 and Jun 1873?
Elinor Mead Howells Elinor Mead Howells ( May 1 , 1837 – May 6 , 1910 ) was an American artist , architect and aristocrat . She was married to author William Dean Howells and designed the William Dean Howells House in Cambridge . Early life and family . Elinor Gertrude Mead was born on May 1 , 1837 in Chesterfield , New Hampshire to Mary Jane Noyes and Larkin Goldsmith Mead . Her family was part of the intellectual and social aristocracy of New England . Her brothers were sculptor Larkin Goldsmith Mead ( born 1835 ) and architect William Rutherford Mead ( born 1846 ) . Future President Rutherford B . Hayes was her cousin and Oneida Community founder John Humphrey Noyes was her uncle . She graduated from Brattleboro High School in Brattleboro , Vermont . During the winter of 1860 , Mead travelled to Columbus to stay with Laura Platt , a niece of Hayes . She met author William Dean Howells there . She went to London with her brother with the intent of marrying William . After learning that a weeks residence would be required , the pair travelled to Paris where they married on December 24 , 1862 . Their children were Winifred ( b . 1863 ) , architect John Mead Howells ( b . 1868 ) , and Mildred ( b . 1872 ) . William Howells held a consulship in Venice from 1861 to 1865 and the couple lived there . The Howells moved to Cambridge , Massachusetts in 1866 and lived in a house a few blocks north of Harvard University . William Dean Howells House and travels . Elinor Howells was the architect and interior designer for the William Dean Howells House located at 37 Concord Avenue . Their family moved into the home on July 7 , 1873 . Howells and her husband agreed it was the prettiest house in Cambridge and intended to live there for the rest of their lives . Following her husbands success as a writer , authors including Samuel Langhorne Clemens , Henry James , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , James Russell Lowell , Bret Harte , and Thomas Bailey Aldrich visited their home , as did President James Garfield . Elinor Howells judgments on fiction were respected by her husband and his circle . She saw both Samuel Clemens and Henry James frequently , corresponding often with Clemens as well as Susan Warner , the spouse of essayist Charles Dudley Warner . The Howells family left Cambridge in 1878 and moved to Redtop in Belmont , Massachusetts . They travelled to Europe in 1882 and relocated frequently thereafter . By 1900 , they had purchased a home near Gloucester , Massachusetts . Death and legacy . Howells had lifelong health problems . In February 1910 , she began using morphine to treat her worsening neuritis . She died on May 6 , 1910 in New York . Around 200 of Elinor Howells letters are extant . The 1988 book If Not Literature : Letters of Elinor Mead Howells includes 130 of her letters . External links . - Howells family . Howells family papers , 1850-1954 . Houghton Library , Harvard College Library .