 Tao House in winter The Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site, located in Danville, California, preserves Tao House, the hillside home of America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill, where he and his wife lived from 1937 to 1944. At this home, O'Neill wrote his final and most memorable plays: The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey Into Night, and A Moon For the Misbegotten. The Site occupies 13 acres accessible only by private road, so advance reservations are required to visit: private vehicles are not allowed, and transportation to the park is provided by a twice-daily free shuttle from Danville, Wednesdays to Sundays. Danville is a city located in a part of Contra Costa County, California called the San Ramon Valley, United States. ...
Eugene ONeill Eugene Gladstone ONeill (New York City, October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953 in Boston) was an American playwright. ...
The Iceman Cometh is a play by Eugene ONeill, which was later made into a TV movie in 1960 as well as a big screen motion picture in 1973, both by the same name. ...
Long Days Journey into Night is a dramatic play in four acts by Eugene ONeill, generally considered to be his masterwork. ...
The house was saved from demolition in the early 1970s by the Eugene O’Neill Foundation through several fundraising efforts, including benefit performances of Eugene O’Neill’s play Hughie featuring Jason Robards. Through their efforts, Tao House was declared a National Historic Site in 1976, and passed into the management of the National Park Service in 1980. Robards in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Jason Robards, Jr. ...
National Historic Site is a designation for a protected area of historic significance. ...
1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ...
The National Park Service (NPS) is the United States Federal Government agency that deals with all National Parks, many National Monuments, and other conservation properties with various designations. ...
1980 is a leap year starting on Tuesday. ...
The Foundation maintains an archive of Eugene O'Neill-related material at Tao House (including photographs, playbills, manuscripts, posters, and O'Neill's original phonograph record collection) and sponsors events such as productions of O'Neill plays, staged in the adjacent barn.
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