Legacy and Honors
- 1873: A bronze bust of Payne was installed with a public ceremony in Prospect Park, Brooklyn.
- 1883: Payne's ashes were brought back to the United States, received with honors, held in state at New York's City Hall, and reinterred in a ceremony in Washington, DC on the 91st anniversary of his birth.
- Circa 1890s: Payne's grandfather's home on James Lane in East Hampton was preserved by Mr. Buck, a wealthy admirer of the poet, and identified as "Home Sweet Home" in Payne's honor. Payne spent time there as a child. Across the street is Mulford Farmhouse, a significant English colonial farmstead, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
- 1970: John Howard Payne was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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