Zora Neale Hurston House, National Historic Landmark residence in Fort Pierce, United States.

The Zora Neale Hurston House is a modest single-story house at 1734 Avenue L, on the north side between North 17th and North 19th Streets. It is built of concrete blocks with a stuccoed exterior and a flat tar-and-gravel roof, one of several identical homes put up in 1957 by Dr. C.C. Benton. It was moved 500 feet north from School Court in 1995, keeping its orientation.

Zora Neale Hurston lived rent-free in this house from 1957 until her death in 1960, a courtesy of Dr. C.C. Benton, the physician who built it in 1957 among identical concrete-block homes. There she wrote for the Fort Pierce Chronicle, taught at Lincoln Park Academy and worked on her manuscript The Life of Herod the Great. In 1995 the house was moved 500 feet north, keeping its orientation, to allow Lincoln Park Academy to expand.

Hurston lived here rent-free from 1957 until her death in 1960, a courtesy of Dr. C.C. Benton, and worked as a journalist for the Fort Pierce Chronicle while teaching at Lincoln Park Academy. The house is a stop on the Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail, which also links the library named for her, a Zora exhibit at the former welfare home where she died, and the Garden of Heavenly Rest Cemetery where she is buried.

The residence sits in a quiet neighborhood and is accessible by foot from nearby streets in this residential area. Check beforehand if guided tours or specific visiting arrangements are available, as this is a protected historic property.

The house is the only known surviving home of Hurston. It was originally on School Court and was moved 500 feet north in 1995, keeping its orientation, to make room for the expansion of Lincoln Park Academy, where she had taught.