Eudora Welty House

Eudora Welty House

The Eudora Welty House at 1119 Pinehurst Street in Jackson, Mississippi was the home of author Eudora Welty for nearly 80 years. It was built by her parents in 1925. In it she did all her writing, in an upstairs bedroom. Welty created the garden over decades. The house was first declared a Mississippi Landmark in 2001,^[1] added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002,^[2] and declared a National Historic Landmark in 2004.^[3][5] This was part of a raised awareness of the significance of authors and literary life in the United States.

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