 While working at Harvard and the Museum of Fine Arts, He resided in Belmont, Massachusetts, in an historic revival style house.He purchased this house from the original architect/builder/owner, who built an adjacent similar home partially financed by Carrington appending a portion of the adjacent lot.He resigned as editor of "The Print Collector’s Quarterly" in 1917, but became the American editor of the same periodical in 1921, the year he resigned from the Museum of Fine Arts.