Tennessee Williams Home (c.1875)
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
(662) 328-0222
www.muw.edu/tennesseewilliams