Rowayton – Philip Nel

A Very Special House

September 30, 2014Philip NelBiography, Connecticut, Crockett Johnson, Maurice Sendak, Nina Stagakis, Phyllis Rowand, Rowayton, Ruth KraussBiography, Connecticut, Crockett Johnson, Maurice Sendak, Nina Stagakis, Phyllis Rowand, Rowayton, Ruth Krauss5 Comments

This past Friday, I spent the afternoon at Crockett Johnson’s house – 74 Rowayton Avenue (Rowayton, Connecticut), where he and Ruth Krauss lived from 1945 to 1973. Though I wrote their biography and had seen (and photographed) the house from the outside, I’d never been inside. I’ve seen all of their homes from the outside,