Carrington House

Carrington House is a beach cottage on Fire Island, New York, sitting on the stretch of land between Cherry Grove and the Pines. Built in 1912, it was bought in 1927 by theater director Frank Carrington, a patron of the arts who co-founded New Jersey's Paper Mill Playhouse. Through the 1930s and 1940s he expanded it and hosted a wide circle of the art world, including ballet impresario Lincoln Kirstein and writer Truman Capote, who worked on Breakfast at Tiffany's there. The house became an informal incubator for LGBTQ+ creative life at a time when few such havens existed. In 2016 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, noted as the only residential LGBTQ property in the National Park Service, and it is being preserved as a cultural space.