117 Philadelphia Avenue, Shillington, Pennsylvania
John Updike's home until he was 13 years old
● "Olinger" and "Brewster"

26 East Street, Ipswich, Massachusetts
1958 - 1970

 ● Roger and Bea Guerin's house in Couples

Updike's apartment
151 Beacon Street, Boston
1974 - 1977

Updike moves in 1982 to a house in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, which is described, along with its flora*, fauna** and metallobioforms, in Toward the End of Time. He joins St. John's Episcopal Church (left). 

*  Truly florid flora!  A Colombian colleague, used to traversing literary rain forests, barely untangled herself from the verbal thicket.
** The house is hidden from the public roadway. Unlike Ray, Jose, Doreen and even dear Deirdre, I didn't presume to trespass or disturb the householder. (But I did see a large and frolicsome doe in the grassland park next to the Labor-in-Vain house.)

The current owner of the Sandstone Farmhouse requested (2003) that the three photos of the Updike ancestral farm, formerly in this space, be removed. I have regretfully complied with that request. I apologize for the pictorial gap in the chronology.

Formerly pictured here: the family farm near Plowville, Pennsylvania, Updike's home from age 13 until he leaves for Harvard. (His parents and maternal grandparents lived here until their respective deaths.)

1961: Updike rents a one-room office, above 
a restaurant and overlooking the Ipswich River, 
in the Caldwell Building, South Main Street, Ipswich

Labor-in-Vain Road, Ipswich
1970 - 1974

● Ken and Foxy Whitman's house in Couples

58 West Main Street
Georgetown, Massachusetts
1977 - 1982