The World of Emily Hale
Girlhood Home
The home in Chestnut Hill where Emily Hale lived from the age of five to twenty-six.
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Chestnut Hill Church
First Church in Chestnut Hill, whiere Hale's father served as pastor from 1896 to 1918.
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41 Brimmer Street
This Boston home may have belonged to Mary Lee Ware, with whom Hale sometimes lived in the early 1930s. Photo credit: Sara Fitzgerald
Brattle Hall
Brattle Hall, home of the Cambridge Social Dramatic Club, where Hale and Eliot performed in 1913. Photo credit: Sara Fitzgerald
Eleanor Hinkley's Home
Eliot fell in love with Hale in 1913, rehearsing for a skit performed in this house near Harvard.
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Milwaukee-Downer College
The campus of what was then Milwaukee-Downer College, where Hale taught from 1921-29.
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Pabst Theatre, Milwaukee (2021)
Hale took the lead in the Wisconsin Players' production of "Miss Lulu Bett" here in 1922.
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Toll Hall, Scripps College
Hale served as dorm matron here from 1932-1934.
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Claremont Train Station
Hale met Eliot's train here when it arrived near dawn in late December 1932.
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Balboa Island
View across Newport Harbor to Balboa Island, where Hale and Eliot were taken to get time alone together.
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Corona del Mar Beach
Hale and Eliot spent time together on this beach in early 1933.
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Balch Hall
Eliot delivered a public lecture here during his visit to Scripps College.
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Padua Hills Theatre, Claremont
Hale performed here in 1933-34, while teaching at Scripps College.
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Stamford House, Chipping Campden
Eliot visited Hale at this Cotswold home from 1934-1939.
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Andover Inn, Massachusetts
Hale and Eliot dined at the inn on the Phillips Andover campus in spring1956.
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Mount Auburn Cemetery
The graves of Hale's father, aunt, and uncle are here; her ashes are in the columbarium.
Perkinses' Graves
Markers for the graves of John Carroll Perkins and Edith Burnside (Milliken) Perkins
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Church Green, Concord
Hale finally had her own home here in her final years. Her funeral was held at the nearby church.
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