Evidence would suggest that her heart really lived there North Goodman Street is where Louise lived and did most of her writing in Rochester, NY. Rochester was home to the George Eastman House, a photography and film museum where Card served as curator. Mostly recently, Laura Moriarty’s historical novel, “The Chaperone”, tells the story, from a nanny’s point-of-view, of the fifteen-year-old Louise Brooks going to New York City to study dance. One, James Card, even managed to convince Brooks to leave New York City and relocate to Rochester, NY.
A website launched in 1995, the Louise Brooks Society is a community of individuals determine to preserve any items relating to Louise Brooks. Ms. Brooks began dancing in Kansas at an early age, eventually moved to New York, joined the Ziegfeld Follies and became an early silent-film star. Brooks’s works in film criticism led to several close friendships among film historians. The silent film star Louise Brooks, who lived in Rochester for over thirty years. New York City served as Louise's home-base for years, and seemed to be the first place she went when she'd had enough of everything else. Louise Brooks was born in Kansas on November 14, 1906.