Thomas Wolfe House

Thomas Wolfe left an indelible mark on American letters. His mother's boardinghouse, now the Thomas Wolfe Memorial, has become one of literature's most famous landmarks. He composed many passages and created many characters based on boyhood remembrances experienced in this ...

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

National Historic Landmark - Thomas Wolfe House

Wolfe, a major American novelist, used his boyhood experiences in this rambling frame house in his novels, the first of which was LOOK HOMEWARD, ANGEL.

Wolfe's mother bought the house in 1906, and he ...

Thomas Wolfe House / Dixieland

Old Kentucky Home

Dixieland

Asheville native Thomas Wolfe achieved international fame with the publication of his first full-length novel, Look Homeward, Angel, in 1929. Many of the incidents in the book took place in his mother's boardinghouse, "Old Kentucky Home," which he ...