File:COURTYARD, LOOKING WEST - Eugene O'Neill House, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Costa County, CA HABS CAL,7-DAN.V,1-7.tif

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COURTYARD, LOOKING WEST - Eugene O'Neill House, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Costa County, CA
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O'Neill, Carlotta; Confer, Frederick; Corduroy Hills Joint Venture; O'Neill, Eugene; Reimers, Frederick; Simpson, Lloyd C; Gerdes; Miller; Boucher, Jack, photographer; McDonald, Melissa, historian; Cox, Robert M, historian; McCown, Susan, historian; English, Fred, photographer
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COURTYARD, LOOKING WEST - Eugene O'Neill House, Kuss Road, Danville, Contra Costa County, CA
Depicted place California; Contra Costa County; Danville
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS CAL,7-DAN.V,1-7
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  • Significance: House of playwright Eugene O'Neill until 1944. O'Neill played a central role in elevating the importance of theater as an artistic expression. Some of O'Neill's best work was written at this house. The Chinese motifs of the house were designed to convey O'Neill's concept of a serene Oriental existence. / Eugene O'Neill is held by many critics to be the central figure in the coming of age of American drama. O'Neill alone, among that generation of writers which included Hemingway and Lewis, succeeded in making of the American stage a vehicle of mature artistic expression. His was the achievement which ultimately proved the outstanding contribution toward a new dimension of realism and the attainment of great tragedy within the American theater, As one writer has observed: "Before O'Neill, the U.S. had theater; after O'Neill it had drama." During his peripatetic career, O'Neill inhabited a succession of houses. Tao house, however, has singular importance. Here the playwright did his final and some of his best work; and the seven years passed in this place constituted perhaps the longest period of relative happiness that O'Neill's stormy life knew. The house is an example of Spanish Colonial style. At Tao House, O'Neill wrote The Iceman Cometh (1939), A Moon for the Misbegotten (1943), and completed several plays including A Touch of the Poet and More Stately Mansions through which he hoped to portray the saga of an American family. Finally, O'Neill here wrote the autobiographical masterpiece, Long Days Journey Into Night "a tale of old sorrow, written in tears and blood," and possibly his greatest work.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-199
  • Survey number: HABS CA-2078
  • Building/structure dates: 1937 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: after 1944 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 71000137.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca0121.photos.020338p
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Object location37° 49′ 18.01″ N, 121° 59′ 56″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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