Welty,Eudora,House - Jackson, MS - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

Designated a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Eudora Welty House, at 1119 Pinehurst Street in Jackson, Mississippi, is of exceptional national significance. It was the home of internationally acclaimed author Eudora Welty, from 1925 until her death in 2001, and the home where she wrote almost all of her fiction and essays.
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In 1925 at age 16, Eudora, her parents, Christian and Chestina, and her two brothers, Edward and Walter, moved to their new home on Pinehurst Street in the Belhaven neighborhood. The Tudor Revival style house was designed for the Welty family by Wyatt C. Hedrick, of the firm of Sanguinet, Staats, and Hedrick of Fort Worth, Texas, the firm that had designed the Lamar Life Building, then under construction for the Lamar Life Insurance Company, of which Christian Welty was a senior officer.
The Eudora Welty House is one of the most intact literary houses in America in terms of its authenticity. Its exterior, interior, and furnishings are as they were in 1986 when Welty made the decision to bequeath her home to the State of Mississippi: paintings, photographs, objects d’art, linens, furniture, draperies, rugs, and, above all, thousands of books in their original places. With virtually every wall lined with books, it is evident that this family of readers valued the written word. The library includes works produced by classic writers through the ages and by the best minds of the twentieth century.

Welty always considered this her family home, and in giving it to the State of Mississippi, she emphasized that it was the house of her family, a family that honored books and reading. She did not want a “house about her” but about literature and the arts in culture.

source: www.eudorawelty.org

Street address: 1919 Pinehurst St Jackson, MS USA 39202 County / Borough / Parish: Hinds County, Mississippi Year listed: 2002 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Person Periods of significance: 1950-1974, 1925-1949 Historic function: Domestic Current function: Work in progress Privately owned?: no Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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