Eudora Welty House, Literary historic residence in Belhaven neighborhood, Jackson, United States.
The Eudora Welty House is a two-story Tudor Revival home at 1119 Pinehurst Street in Jackson, Mississippi, where the author lived from age 16 until her death in 2001. The house retains its original furnishings, artwork, and library, and is flanked by a garden designed by her mother, Chestina, in 1925.
Eudora Welty's parents built the house in 1925, and she lived there from age 16 until her death in 2001. She left the property, with her furniture, artwork and library, to the state of Mississippi. It became a Mississippi Landmark in 2001, joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2002 and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2004. After restoration by the Eudora Welty Foundation and the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, house and garden opened as a museum in 2006.
The home displays the personal surroundings of a writer, filled with books and artworks that shaped her daily life. Visitors see how literary work happened within a domestic space and what objects surrounded a notable author.
The house is accessed through guided tours offered on several days per week, allowing visitors to move through the rooms at a set pace. The best time to visit is in the morning or early afternoon when fewer visitors are present.
Welty left her house, furniture, artwork and library to the state of Mississippi at her death in 2001, and much of the interior remains as it was then. The night-blooming cereus on the side porch, which she invited friends to watch open, appears in The Golden Apples as "a naked, luminous, complicated flower."
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