Among many other distinctions, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1929, Thomas Mann accumulated an impressive number of addresses in his lifetime (1875–1955). In their geographic and architectural variety, many of those residences reflected the writer’s peripatetic wandering and his cosmopolitan spirit, from the Baltic austerity of his wealthy Hanseatic family’s town home at Mengstraße 4 in Lübeck to the red-brick colonial at 65 Stockton Street in Princeton, New Jersey, where he briefly taught, to the Pacific Palisades glass-and-steel modernist masterpiece at 1550 San Remo Drive, where he lived in California exile, and finally to Alte Landstraße 39 in Zurich, Switzerland, where he spent his last days. Yet it was the most stereotypically Teutonic of his dwellings, his Bavarian summer home in Bad Tölz, that represented Mann at his most nationalistic.
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