L. Frank Baum Syracuse Home

L. Frank Baum and his wife, Maud, rented half of this house (then 45-1/2 Holland Street) between May 1886 and September 1888. Of the three homes in which Frank and Maud lived together, this is the only one still standing.

Maud’s mother, freethinker and suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage, stayed in the house each winter. While there, she did suffrage work and wrote portions of her book Woman, Church, and State and also The History of Woman Suffrage, which she coauthored with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

While quite dilapidated, this now absentee-owned structure has undergone minimal structural change since the nineteenth century.