Manhattan · NYC landmark
Langston Hughes House
20 East 127th Street · Manhattan, New York City
See the home where Hughes worked during the final two decades of his writing life, clearly marked as an exterior stop.
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NYFE Summary
The poet spent the last twenty years of his life here, using the top floor as his workroom. During those years he published Montage of a Dream Deferred and developed the stories of Jesse B. Semple, whose conversations drew on everyday life in Harlem.
The brownstone front has arched window surrounds, a bracketed roof cornice and a raised entrance reached by a stoop. These features remain part of the house associated with his long residence and writing.
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