The brownstone at 749 St Nicholas Avenue, where Ralph Waldo Ellison wrote Invisible Man, is for sale.

The Corcoran website says that the 5 story, 4,425 square foot brownstone is currently configured as a 9 unit walk-up with 1 storefront. The asking price is $1.275 million. The building can also be delivered vacant, but not without a strong cultural connection. Asking price vacant is $1.375 million.

Steam Boats Are Ruining Everything notes that in Lawrence Jackson's Ralph Ellison: Emergence of Genius, "Ellison moved into the ground floor apartment of 749 St. Nicholas Ave., in Harlem, in 1946, and that he and his wife kept Scotch terriers in the backyard."

And speaking of dogs, the building is just a few blocks up from Friends of St. Nicholas Park President Shawn's brownstone, where a diverse crowd of long-time and new Harlem residents got together Saturday to raise money for the St. Nicholas Park dog run.

Also, it's about one block down from John, the owner of Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, and his Akita's brownstone.