F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum

A small museum in the modest brown-shingled Felder Avenue house the Fitzgeralds rented in 1931 — the longest stretch they ever stayed in one place — set up in two ground-floor rooms with letters, manuscripts, Zelda's paintings, and rotating exhibits. The upstairs is now an artist's residency.

It's eccentric, low-budget, and a real find for Jazz Age readers; allow forty-five minutes to an hour. Donations encouraged. The Garden District neighbourhood it sits in is one of the prettier residential walks in town.

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Zelda Sayre, the future Zelda Fitzgerald, was born in Montgomery and met Scott when he was stationed at nearby Camp Sheridan in 1918. The Felder Avenue house, where the couple lived briefly in 1931 and 1932, is the only museum in the world devoted to them — and one of the few houses they ever occupied that is still standing.

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