Hillhouse Avenue, described, according to tradition, by both Charles Dickens and Mark Twain as "the most beautiful street in America,", is in New Haven, Connecticut and is home to many nineteenth century mansions including the president's house at Yale University. Much of the avenue is included in the Hillhouse Avenue Historic District, which extends to include houses on adjacent streets.
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“Only in America ... do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, and walk up and down Collins Avenue in Florida in pedalpushers and mink stoles—and with opinions on every subject under the sun. It isn’t their fault they were given a gift like speech—look, if cows could talk, they would say things just as idiotic.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)