Faulkner House

William Faulkner arrived in New Orleans in 1924, stayed briefly with Sherwood Anderson, then took the first floor of 624 Pirate's Alley with William Spratling, an artist and silver designer. The stay lasted about six months in 1925. There he began Soldiers' Pay, published in 1926. With Spratling he made a satire of Miguel Covarrubias, Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles, and he wrote essays for The Double Dealer and sketches for the Times-Picayune. In 1990 Joseph DeSalvo and Rosemary James bought the building, opened Faulkner House Books and, with W. Kenneth Holditch, founded the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Cabildo — steps away
  The Spanish town hall on Jackson Square, finished in 1799, where Louisiana changed flags in 1803 and where the state Supreme Court sat in the same room until 1910, Plessy v. Ferguson among its cases.
• The Historic New Orleans Collection — steps away
  A French Quarter museum and research center founded in 1966, whose 2015 Purchased Lives exhibition took on New Orleans' place as the largest slave market in antebellum America.
• New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park — 0.2 mi
  A National Park Service unit created in 1994 to tell where jazz came from, with free programs and a visitor center in the French Quarter and park land inside Louis Armstrong Park.
• Congo Square — 0.3 mi
  The 2.35-acre corner of Louis Armstrong Park where, from 1817, New Orleans confined Sunday dancing by enslaved people to one place, and where crowds of hundreds gathered to drum, dance and trade.

More markers nearby

• Former site of Holy Family Sisters' Convent — steps away
• Lower Pontalba Building — steps away
• Homesite of Oliver Pollock — steps away
• The Steamer New Orleans — steps away