Fitzgerald Home

Fitzgerald Home (HM1B6R)

Location: Montgomery, AL 36106 Montgomery County
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Country: United States of America
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N 32° 21.502', W 86° 17.547'

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(ca. 1910)

(side 1)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda and daughter Scottie lived in this house from October 1931 to April 1932.

During this period Fitzgerald worked on his novel Tender Is the Night and Zelda began her only novel, Save Me the Waltz.

"Now once again the belt is tight and we summon the proper expression of horror as we look back at our wasted youth. Sometimes, though, there is a ghostly rumble among the drums, an asthmatic whisper in the trombones.... and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, "Echoes of the Jazz Age," November 1931.

(side 2)
F. Scott Fitzgerald, his wife Zelda and daughter Scottie lived in this house from October 1931 to April 1932.

During this period Fitzgerald worked on his novel Tender is the Night and Zelda began her only novel, Save Me the Waltz.

"Every place has its hours.... So in Jeffersonville (Montgomery) there existed then, and I suppose now, a time and quality that appertains to nowhere else. It began about half past six on an early summer night, with the flicker and sputter of the corner street lights going on, and it lasted until the great incandescent globes were black inside with moths and beetles and the children were called in to bed from the dusty streets."
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, "Southern Girl," October 1929.
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HM NumberHM1B6R
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Year Placed1987
Placed ByJulian and Leslie McPhillips for the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Association
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Date Added Thursday, September 4th, 2014 at 10:47pm PDT -07:00
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Locationbig map
UTM (WGS84 Datum)16S E 566571 N 3580379
Decimal Degrees32.35836667, -86.29245000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 32° 21.502', W 86° 17.547'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds32° 21' 30.12" N, 86° 17' 32.82" W
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Area Code(s)334
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 901-919 Felder Ave, Montgomery AL 36106, US
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