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This is a list-in-progress. Most of the addresses have been culled from Brian Boyd's stupendous two-volume biography, others from Nabokov's published letters, and a few from Berlin directories of the time. Color photos by Dieter E. Zimmer. Black and white photos, with the exception of the picture of Vyra, by Gennady Barabtarlo, from the Nabokov Sights section of Zembla.
1940 (May 28): arrival in New York; several days c/o Nathalie Nabokov, former wife of Nicolas Nabokov, 32 East 61st Street.   1943 (summer): at the guest lodge of publisher James Laughlin at Alta, Utah 1945 (from summer): Wellesley, MA, 9 Abbott Street 1946 (c. June 20): by train and bus to New Hampshire where they spend the summer "on the shores of a dismal lake [Newfound Lake] at a horrible place called Don Jerry Lodge" 1946 (summer): at Don Gerry Lodge on Newfound Lake, New Hampshire 1946 (from August 18): 6 Cross Street, Wellesley, MA 1947 (late July to September): Columbine Lodge, above Estes Park, Colorado, collecting butterflies near Longs Peak (e.g., Boloria freija), as described at the end of Chapter 6 of Speak, Memory 1948 (from July 1): 927 E. State Street, Ithaca, New York (house of Batz Hansteen?); office 278 Goldwin Smith Hall, Cornell University; buys a 1940 Plymouth 4-door sedan, driven by Véra   1949 (August): Teton Pass Ranch, Wilson, WY 1950 (June): The Vendome, Commonwealth Avenue and Dartmouth Street, Boston, MA. On June 1, Dr. Favre in Boston extracts all his teeth. On June 2, 1950, VN took a specimen of his best known butterfly, the Karner Blue, at this site north of Albany, N.Y.:  1951 (July 3 to 29): Valley View Court Motel, Telluride, Colorado 1952 (from February 1 to June 20, as a visiting professor at Harvard): 9 Maynard Place (at the house of writer May Sarton), Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Hotel The Vendome, Boston, Massachusetts  1952 (from September 1): 106 Hampton Road, Cayuga Heights, New York (house of A.F. Wiegant) 1953 (from February 1): 35 Brewster Street, Cambridge, MA  1953 (April 7): leaving for Arizona, via Birmingham 1953 (c. April 20): at a rented ranch at Portal, Arizona 1953 (June 1): on a account of Véra's dislike for rattlesnakes, they leave for Oregon 1953 (June, July and August): 163 Mead Street, Ashland, Oregon, at the house of Dr. Arthur Tailor) 1954 (from beginning of spring term): 101 Irving Place, Ithaca, NY (faculty home) 1954 (June 18): leaving for Cleveland, Ohio, and Taos, New Mexico, where they spend July and August at a rented house 1954 (from September 1): 700 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca, New York (Bel-leayre Apartments, #30, appartment of Professor James L. Gregg) 1955 (from mid-July): 808 Hanshaw Road, Cayuga Heights, New York (house of Professor Fisher) 1956 (from February): 'Continental Hotel Apartments', no.10, 16 Chauncy Street, Cambridge, MA 1956 (spring): motoring 10,000 miles in their "good old frog-green Buick" to Utah (a ranchito at Mt. Carmel), Arizona and Montana 1956 (from July 1): 425 Hanshaw Road, Cayuga Heights, New York 1957 (from February 3): 880 Highland Road, Cayuga Heights, New York (house of L. Sharp) 1958 (from February 23?): 404 Highland Road, Cayuga Heights, New York 1959 (February 24): leaving Cornell, by car via Schenectady to New York City 1959 (February 26-April 18): Hotel Windermere, 666 West End Avenue, New York 1959 (April 18): by car to Arizona, via Tennessee (Great Smokies), Alabama and Big Bend, Texas 1959 (early summer): at summer cabins resort Forest Houses between Flagstaff and Sedona, AZ, hunting butterflies in Oak Creek Canyon 1959 (July 20): from Sedona to Los Angeles, CA 1959 (July 20-end of July): The Beverly Hills Hotel, 9641 Sunset Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA 1959 (end of July-mid August): Brockway Hotel on North Lake Tahoe, CA 1959 (early September): Park Crescent Hotel, 87th and Riverside Drive, New York City 1959 (September 29-October 5): on the 'Liberté' from New York City to Le Havre, travelling on to Geneva (Hotel Beau Rivage) right away as they were no suitable accomodations to be found in Paris 1959 (mid November): Hotel Excelsior, Taormina, Sicily (for the first time envisaging how to turn Lolita into a screenplay) 1959 (November 27): from Sicily to Genoa, Colombia Excelsior Hotel 1959 (December 9): to Lugano, Grand Hotel, room 317-318 1959 (December 13): by taxi to Milano, Hotel Principe e Savoia 1959 (December 25): by car to San Remo, Hotel Excelsior-Bellevue 1960 (early January to February): to Hôtel Astoria, avenue Carnot, Menton 1960 (February 18): by train from Menton to Le Havre 1960 (February 19): on the 'United States' from Le Havre to New York 1960 (February 27): by train via Chicago to Los Angeles 1960 (March 10 to October 12): 2088 Mandeville Canyon Road, Los Angeles, CA 1960 (late June/early July): Glacier Lodge, Inyo County, California 1960 (October 12-15): by train via Chicago to New York 1960 (October 15-November 2): Hotel Hampshire House (room 503), New York 1960 (November 2-7): on the 'Queen Elizabeth' from New York to Cherbourg 1960 (November 7-9): via Paris to Milano, Hotel Principe e Savoia 1960 (November 26): to Nice, Hotel Negresco, 37, promenade des Anglais (looking for an apartment and writing the beginning of Shade's poem in Pale Fire) 1960 (early December): 57, promenade des Anglais (appartement no. 3), Nice (Alpes Maritimes) 1961 (April 26): by car to Reggio Emilia (for Dmitri's operatic debut in La Bohème, along with Luciano Pavarotti) 1961 (May 8): by car to Stresa 1961 (early June): to Milano for a concert by Dmitri 1961 (mid June): by car via Martigny to Champex (Vaud) 1961 (June 15 to August 15): Champex-Lac (Valais), Grand Hôtel Alpes et Lac (working on Pale Fire, hunting butterflies at Verbier, Crans, Simplon and Saas-Fee) 1961 (end July to August 7): to Simplon Kulm (Vaud), Hotel Bellevue 1961 (August 7): to Montreux (Vaud), Hotel Belmont 1961 (September 20): by car to Milan (to hear Dmitri sing at the Scala) 1961 (early October to their death): in a furnished apartment of the Hôtel Montreux Palace, Montreux (Vaud), rooms 35-38 1962 (May 31 to June 5): on the 'Queen Elizabeth' from Cherbourg to New York 1962 (June 5-20): St. Regis Hotel, Fifth Avenue, New York 1962 (June 20): on the 'Queen Elizabeth' from New York to France 1962 (June 26): back at his hotel rooms in Montreux 1962 (July): Hotel Mt. Cervin, Zermatt (Valais) 1964 (c. March 18): on the to New York City 1964 (end of March): by train to Ithaca, NY 1964 (April 2): by plane back to New York City 1964 (April 9): to Cambridge, MA 1964 (April 10): last public reading at Sanders Hall, Harvard University 1964 (mid April): back to New York City 1964 (April 21): Bollingen Press reception (in honor of 'Pushkin Eugene Onegin') 1964 (April 23): on the 'United States' back to Europe 1965 (late April): Grand Hotel, Gardone Riviera (Brescia) on Lake Garda 1965 (July): Suvretta-House, St. Moritz (Grisons) 1965 (August 10): back at his hotel rooms in Montreux 1966 (May): Albergo Cappucino Convento, Amalfi 1966 (last week of May to end of June): Grand Hotel Excelsior, Chianciano Terme (Siena) 1967 (May): Albergo Cenobio dei Dogi, Camogli (Genoa) 1968 (from May 10 to early July): Hôtel des Salines, Bex-les-Bains 1968 (from early July to early August): Parc Hotel, Verbier 1971 (March 24 to March 30): Hotel Ritz, Lisbon, Portugal 1971 (March 30 to April 14): Algarve Hotel, Praia de Rocha, Portugal, flying both ways 1971 (May): Tourtour (Var) 1971 (August): in a chalet between Gstaad and Saanen 1974 (July): Hotel Mt. Cervin, Zermatt (Valais) 1977 (March 9 to May 7): with influenza at the Nestlé Hospital in Lausanne 1977 (June 5): back to the Nestlé Hospital where he died at 6:50 pm on July 2, from a bronchial infection 1977 (July 7): Nabokov's body cremated in Vevey 1977 (July 8): Nabokov's ashes interred in the cemetery of Clarens
1991 (April 6): Véra taken to the hospital in Vevey because of respiratory trouble
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