Eugene O'Neill NHS

The Eugene O'Neill National Historic Site in Danville, California, was the home of America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, Eugene O'Neill. O'Neill and his wife lived in the home from 1937 to 1944. The site includes Tao House, the Monterey Colonial hillside home that O'Neill built with the prize money he won from the Nobel Prize. O'Neill named the house after the Chinese Tao Te Ching, which he had read while living in China. The house is now a National Historic Landmark and is open to the public for tours. Visitors can see firsthand the place where O'Neill created some of his most famous works, including The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night.