7. Audre Lorde House
The residence of radical feminist and one-time New York State Poet Laureate Audre Lorde can be found in The St. Paul’s Avenue/Stapleton Heights Historic District at 207 St. Paul’s Avenue. Lorde lived here from 1972 to 1987 with her partner, Frances Clayton, and Lorde’s two children. This fact is included in the district’s 2004 designation.
In this, Lore produced important works such as Coal (1976), The Black Unicorn (1978), The Cancer Journals (1980), and Zami: A New Spelling of My Name (1982). The 1898 neo-Colonial-style house was designated an individual landmark in 2019.