Tao House in Danville, California, preserves the secluded home where Eugene O'Neill, America’s only Nobel Prize-winning playwright, spent his last sustained creative years. Built with his 1936 Nobel Prize money, the Monterey Colonial house sat on 13 acres and was designed by O'Neill and his wife, Carlotta Monterey, to reflect their interest in Asian art and ideas. Living there from 1937 to 1944, O'Neill wrote major late works including The Iceman Cometh and Long Day's Journey Into Night. Saved from demolition in the 1970s, Tao House became a National Historic Landmark, then a National Historic Site, and remains a literary memorial, archive, and performing-arts venue.