Eudora Welty House

Chestina Welty designed the garden behind the house in 1925, and she and her daughter Eudora tended it for decades, calling it a labor of love. Eudora wrote in her bedroom and on the porch, where writer friends often visited. She willed the house, its furnishings, art and library to the state, and it opened as an author's house museum in 2006 after restoration by the Welty Foundation and the state archives. It is regarded as one of the most intact literary homes in the country, and a visitor center opened next door in 2009.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 1.2 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.
• Old Capitol Museum — 1.4 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Farish Street Historic District — 1.4 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 3.0 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.

More markers nearby

• Belhaven University — steps away
• The Jackson Volcano — 0.2 mi
• Willie Morris — 0.4 mi
• The "Cotton Bale" Battery — 0.5 mi