Location Information
(for the Welty House childhood home of Eudora Welty)
Name:Welty House (childhood home of Eudora Welty)
Address:741 Congress Street, North
City/County:Jackson, Hinds County
Architectural Information
Architectural Styles(s):Queen Anne, Colonial Revival
Registration Information
NR Listing Date:27 Oct 1980
Date Delisted:06 Mar 1986
View National Register Nomination Form
Context/Comments
Constructed in 1908 for Christian Webb Welty, the Welty House is the birthplace and childhood home of author Eudora Welty. The property is architecturally significant as a "foursquare" with Colonial Revival features, representative of much of the early twentieth-century residential construction in Jackson.

It was listed on the National Register in 1980, but was delisted in 1986 because of insensitive alterations (mainly a large shed dormer and deck on the roof) that diminished its architectural integrity.

This house is included in "Jackson Landmarks" (1982) (pp. 74-75).
Brief Description
Two-and-a-half story, Queen Anne residential structure clad in wood shingle and wood lap siding with an asphalt shingle hip roof comprised of a front gable roof dormer with a pent roof, shingle side walls, and wooden 4-light casement window; and a cutaway bay with a hexagonal roof on the northeast corner. A rusticated block chimney pierces the NW corner of the roof. On the south elevation, a shingle side walled, shed roof addition with a cantilevered wooden deck accessed by a ribbon of 4-pairs of 15-light replacement doors projects from the roof. The second story of the facade is sided in wood shingles and consists of two bays (wwww - www). Bay 1 is a palladian window comprised of paired, square, 4-light wooden casement windows set below a segmental arched, 6-light wooden fanlight with a ribbon of 4 rectangular lights set below. Flanking this arrangement on either side are single, wooden, 4-light casement windows that do not extend the same height as the arrangement they flank. Bay 2 is a cutaway bay containing three, single wooden dhs windows with a diamond patterned top sash over a single light bottom sash. The first story consists of three bays (www-d-w), sided in wood lap siding and set within a full-width, one-story porch with an asphalt shingle hipped roof carried on round wood Tuscan columns. Bay 1 is a three-part window comprised of paired 6-over-1 wooden dhs windows set below a large, horizontally oriented, rectangular wooden window with diamond patterned muntins. Flanking this arrangement on either side are tall, narrow, wooden dhs windows with a diamond patterned top sash and a single light on the bottom sash. Bay 2 is a full-light wooden door set below a rectangular transom. Bay 3 is a single wood window containing a diagonal pattern top sash and a single light below.