Landrigan & Company Realtors

4061 North Illinois Street

Butler-Tarkington Now $224,900

The Frank Flanner House c. 1910. Originally owned by the Flanner & Buchanan family, the home also apparently served as a late childhood home for writer Janet "Genet" Flanner, the longtime New Yorker columnist whose close colleagues included Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and those of the famed "Algonquin Table" group in New York. Although in need of restoration, this is a remarkable home that provides an unusual amount of opportunity. Approximately 4,000 square feet of living space includes a third floor ballroom/family room. Sited on almost one acre of grounds, this significant home awaits its new owner.

Contact: G.B. Landrigan, 255.0255, gb@landrigan.com .

"Janet Flanner was the most deft and charming literary stylist Indianapolis has so far produced... So when she died here in New York, I wanted to make sure that her native city knew about it. I telephoned the city desk of the Indianapolis (newspaper)... Nobody had ever heard of her... But then I found a way to excite them, to get them to run a front page obituary, which was a rewrite of the obituary that had appeared in that morning's New York Times.

What did the trick? I told them that she was somehow related to the people who ran the funeral homes... I myself will get an obituary in an Indianapolis paper when I die because I am related to people who used to own a chain of hardware stores."

- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. from Palm Sunday