Now in Paperback

Winner of the Marfield Prize 
National Award for Arts Writing
The Chelsea Hotel, since its founding by a visionary French architect in 1884, has been an icon of American invention: a cultural dynamo and haven for the counterculture, all in one astonishing building. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a masterful and endlessly entertaining history of the Chelsea and of successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them John Sloan, Edgar Lee Masters, Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas, Arthur Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andy Warhol, Sam Shepard, Sid Vicious, and Dee Dee Ramone. Now as legendary as the artists it has housed and the countless creative collaborations it has sparked, the Chelsea has always stood as a mystery as well: Why and how did this hotel become the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the known world? Inside the Dream Palace is the intimate and definitive story.
A Slate.com Best Book of the Year
A New Yorker Book to Watch Out For
A San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book
A Guardian U.K. Readers' Choice
A Spectator Book of the Year
             "The shuttle is whirring, the temperature's rising,
              everybody's at the party, and she's a perfect host."
                                                  - London Review of Books

                       News


​"If These Walls Could Talk."
Jennifer Flowers explores the Hotel Chelsea's history with author Sherill Tippins and hotelier Sean MacPherson on the latest episode of "Unpacked," AFAR's travel podcast.

"You can still feel the history."
INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE author Sherill Tippins tours the reborn Chelsea Hotel with co-owner Sean MacPherson and CBS Morning News host Alina Cho.

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NPR's Howie Movshovitz
reflects on the Chelsea Hotel's many decades as a New York City haven for artists, as reflected in the new documentary film "Dreaming Walls" and in Sherill Tippins' INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE.


"Where Writers Gathered"
In her book INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE, Sherill Tippins calls the Chelsea Hotel "a veritable Ellis Island of the avant-garde," writes Tina Jordan in the New York Times.

Telegraph U.K. names INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE one of the 28 best books about America.


"Not Helplessly Strange" 
Lily DeBell recounts her intimate encounter with FEBRUARY HOUSE in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

                 Featured Events 
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Friday, March 1, 2024, 7:30pm
Brooklyn Heights, NY
Songs from the "February House"
Brooklyn Art Song Society
Works by Benjamin Britten and songs by Kurt Weill , with a pre-concert lecture by FEBRUARY HOUSE author Sherill Tippins.
First Unitarian Church
119-121 Pierrepont Street

Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, 9:30pm  [SOLD OUT]
Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, 9:30pm [SOLD OUT]
Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, 9:30pm [SOLD OUT]
New York, NY
"Ghosts of the Chelsea Hotel (and Other Rock and Roll Stories)"
Chip Baker's new documentary, featuring actor Michael Imperioli, author Sherill Tippins, rockers Harley Flanagan, Neon Leon, and many others, makes its debut at the New York Public Theater's iconic club venue.
Joe's Pub
425 Lafayette Street

Tuesday, March 24, 2023, 7:00 pm
Dijon, France
"The Hotel Chelsea: A Utopian Experiment"
INSIDE THE DREAM PALACE author Sherill Tippins and DREAMING WALLS documentary co-director Maya Duverdier explore the utopian origins of the Chelsea Hotel.
Consortium Museum
37, Rue du Longvic