PEOPLE AND IDEAS HERE
The Human Network Behind the Address
Evidence supports an 1888 cottage near Orange Grove and Arroyo, a later North Madison Avenue home, and final days on South Catalina Avenue. A relocated Catalina house belonged to her daughter; Pasadena states Gilman never lived there.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
1860–1935
resident · 1880s and 1934–1935 Pasadena periods
Gilman occupied multiple Pasadena residences, none of which can responsibly be presented today as an intact author house.
Interaction circle
• The corrected sequence links The Yellow Wallpaper’s author to Pasadena’s social-reform history.
• This node demonstrates why residence claims require parcel and lifecycle research.
LOOK CLOSER
The Gloriously Specific Details
Location history
• Evidence supports an 1888 cottage near Orange Grove and Arroyo, a later North Madison Avenue home, and final days on South Catalina Avenue. A relocated Catalina house belonged to her daughter; Pasadena states Gilman never lived there.
Interaction circle
• The corrected sequence links The Yellow Wallpaper’s author to Pasadena’s social-reform history.
• This node demonstrates why residence claims require parcel and lifecycle research.
Map disclosure
• The marker is a coarse area point, not the residence or parcel.
CONFIRMED · HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
Evidence supports an 1888 cottage near Orange Grove and Arroyo, a later North Madison Avenue home, and final days on South Catalina Avenue. A relocated Catalina house belonged to her daughter; Pasadena states Gilman never lived there.
INTERPRETATION · IDEA NETWORK
This record is as much about historical method as literary history: it preserves a corrected residence sequence and refuses a tempting but false landmark attribution.
UNDERSTAND THE PLACE
Context Without a Doorstep
Public location
Central Pasadena (city-level context)
Hours
Not applicable to a context-only record. A related public institution may have its own event schedule.
Access
Historic context only. The associated home no longer survives, and the current parcel is not a visitor destination.
Map disclosure
The marker identifies a general area, not a house or parcel.
Photography
Do not photograph residents, windows, or private property, and do not linger.
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