Zelda Museum


F Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda Sayer lived in this 1910 house at 919 Felder Avenue for a few months in 1931. I suspect their moving here was a ploy by the alocholic Scott to park his schizophrenic wife and move on with a new life in Hollywood. The house was turned into a museum dedicated to the Fitzgeralds by lawyer Julian McPhillips, and is supposedly the only museum in the world so designated. Zelda was born in Montgomery in 1900 and grew up here as the wild daughter of a political power. Barely 18, she had a renowned love affair with her famous husband to be, whom she met while he was stationed here during WW I. After their marriage they moved to New York and Zelda herself became a national icon of the “Roaring Twenties”, and an international emblem of the “Jaz Age”. Movies have been made about the Fitzgeralds. 

-Charles Humphries

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