Location Information
(for the Eudora Welty House and Garden)
Name:Eudora Welty House and Garden
Address:1119 Pinehurst Street
City/County:Jackson, Hinds County
Architectural Information
Construction Date:1925
Architectural Styles(s):Tudor
No. of Stories:2
Registration Information
NHL Listing Date:18 Aug 2004
NR Listing Date:21 Nov 2002
NR District Name:Belhaven (2012)
    NR Status:Contributing
    Element No.:779a
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Mississippi Landmark Information
Designated:08-18-2004
Recorded:10-23-2001
Book/Vol. No.:V. 5459, p. 791
Local Designation Information
Local District Name:Belhaven Historic District
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Context/Comments
This two-story Tudor Revival house was the family home of noted author Eudora Welty from its completion in 1925 and her own residence from 1931, when she returned to Jackson from New York, until her death in 2001. The house was conveyed to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in 1986, with Miss Welty retaining a life estate. The house and gardens are now open as a museum dedicated to Welty and her literary legacy.

It was listed on the National Register on 21 November 2002, and was designated a National Historic Landmark on 18 August 2004. It was designated a Mississippi Landmark on 18 August 2004.

The Eudora Welty House is included in "The Majesty of Eastern Mississippi and the Coast" (2004) (63), "Must See Mississippi" (2007) (pp. 186-189), and "Buildings of Mississippi" (2020) (p.258, JM44).
Brief Description
Two-story, wood frame Tudor Revival style residence with a clipped cross-gable roof of asphalt shingles on a brick foundation. There is no entry porch, just a brick stoop. The entry is delineated by a front facing gable roof projection. The facade has brick veneer on the first floor and half-timbering with stucco on the second floor. The first floor facade is four-bay (Porch, W-Tripled, D, W-Tripled) and the second floor is three-bay (W-Tripled, W, W-Tripled). The tripled window units have 6/6 wood double hung sash. The single window on the second floor is a wood double-leaf casement with six lights to each leaf. The entry door is wood batten with a pointed arch and six lights. There is an outer wood screen door. The door has stretcher brick around the opening. Under the slope of the main roof on the left is an open porch supported by brick columns on a tiled porch deck. The front facing gable roof bay has a paired wood louvered vent in the gable. There is a brick chimney piercing the roof on the left side with a clay chimney pot and one on the right side of the house. The house was home to author Eudora Welty and built by her parents. Garage (c. 1925) - One-story, wood frame garage which has a front facing gable roof of asphalt shingles. The garage is sided in stucco and has half-timbering in the gable. There are two wood garage doors with three panels each. Each of the panels has a window with six lights over four horizontal recessed panels.
Historic Information
In 1913, this lot was first sold to Mrs. R. M. Johnson. The house was constructed for C. W. Welty, vice president and general manager of Lamar Life Insurance. The address, as indicated on the 1925 Sanborn Map, was 2224, Welty also owned the two lots adjoining the property. His daughter, Eudora, lived there until her death in 2001. She attended Central High School, MS State College for Women, and later Columbia University in New York City. She returned home in 1929 to live with her parents and work as publicity assistant to the Works Progress Administration. She began a lifelong career in the field of writing, and in 1973 won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, "The Optimists Daughter." Her other awards include the William Dean Howells Medal of American Arts and Letters, 1955, for "The Ponder Heart," the 1970 Edward McDowell Medal, a National Book Award nomination in 1971 for "Losing Battles," and the Gold Medal in fiction in 1972. She was an honorary consultant in American letters for the Library of Congress beginning in 1958. She won O. Henry Short Story writing awards in 1942, 1943 and 1968. Her books and essays include: "A Curtain of Green," "The Robber Bridegroom," "The Wide Net and Other Stories," Delta Wedding," "Short Stories," "The Golden Apple," "Selected Stories," "The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories," "13 Stories," "The Shoe Bird," "The Wanderers," "One Time, One Place: MS in the Depression, A Snapshot Album," "A Sweet Devouring," "A Pageant of Birds," "Place in Fiction," and "The Eye of the Storm."