Over all rear facing shot of the F. Scott Fitzgerald Museum.
“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Fitzgerald museum is one of the most historical places in the state of Alabama. With its outstanding features, no wonder it’s on everyone’s bucket list. The museum itself is the actual home of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Fitzgerald.
The structure of the home was built in 1910. The land was bought in 1905 from the Western Railway Co. Unfortunately, the original blueprints have been lost for the home, but it is typically a craftsman styled home. The museum was among the first land purchased for the Cloverdale neighborhood, being one of the first 10 or 15 homes built in that area. It is in the same proximity as Alabama State University and The former Country Club. Scott and his wife originate from the Jazz age. The museum is the last of four extant homes that survived the Fitzgerald’s travels across the world.
The museum is the only dedicated museum to their lives and legacies. After they moved out, it was subdivided into four apartments.The space was actively rented until 1986 and was set to be demolished until the museum founders, Julian & Leslie McPhillips, purchased the home and donated it as it is now- The Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum. The museum continued to be actively rented in a portion of the structure until 2016. Now, it houses a writer’s residency/Airbnb, and the museum is housed in the entire downstairs floor. Little changes have been made to the home/landscape itself, but more to the neighborhood that surrounds it.
There are eight original wallpapers within the museum and are in process of being preserved and relayed. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote portions of his novel “Tender is the Night”. One of the apartment residents was former Democratic Senator Silas D. Cater
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-Kywanna Johnson
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