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Visitors Attractions Daily Home Tours Local Attractions Tennessee Williams Home (c.1875)
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The Tennessee Williams Home and Welcome Center is the first home of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams. The author made history with well-known plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie.
Tennessee Williams Home (c.1875)
300 Main Street (662) 328-0222 Open Monday-Saturday 8:30am-5pm/Sunday, 12pm-5pm. The Tennessee Williams Home and Welcome Center is the first home of Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tennessee Williams. The author made
history with well-known plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and The Glass Menagerie.
Tennessee Williams, the man said to be the most important American
playwright, was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911. He spent his
beginning years in an old Victorian home that was the rectory for
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Williams' grandfather, Reverend Walker Dakin,
served as minister for the church.
In 1993, the rectory was in danger of being torn down to make room for
a church expansion. In an effort to preserve this historic literary landmark,
the yellow and blue gingerbread home was loaded onto flatbed trailers
and moved to Main Street, where it was restored. Just three months after
opening, Tennessee Williams was honored with a U.S. postage stamp, and
a public ceremony was held there. The home was also recently honored
with the designation of a National Literary Landmark, and it now serves
as the official Welcome Center for Columbus.
Open Monday - Saturday, 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., and Sundays,
12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m..
300 Main Street
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