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Old Cloverdale in Montgomery in Montgomery County, Alabama — The American South (East South Central)
 

Fitzgerald Home

(ca. 1910)

 
 
Fitzgerald Home Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Mark Hilton, October 15, 2023
1. Fitzgerald Home Marker
Inscription.
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.

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
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were called in to bed from the dusty streets.”
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, “Southern Girl,” October 1929.
 
Erected 1987 by Julian and Leslie McPhillips for the Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum Association.
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Arts, Letters, Music. A significant historical month for this entry is April 1932.
 
Location. 32° 21.502′ N, 86° 17.547′ W. Marker is in Montgomery, Alabama, in Montgomery County. It is in Old Cloverdale. Marker is at the intersection of Felder Avenue and Dunbar Street, on the right when traveling west on Felder Avenue. Located on the lawn of the Fitzgerald home. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 919 Felder Ave, Montgomery AL 36106, United States of America. Touch for directions.
 
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. The Moore-Tyson-McPhillips Home (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Rev. Robert S. & Jean Graetz (about 400 feet away); First United Methodist Church (about 700 feet away); Folmar - Siegelman House (approx. half a mile away); Birth of Montgomery Bus Boycott (approx. half a mile away); Birthplace of Nat "King" Cole (approx. half a mile away); Home of Ralph David Abernathy (approx. half a mile away); Black Members of the Alabama Legislature Who Served During The Reconstruction Period of 1868-1879
Fitzgerald Home Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Mark Hilton, October 15, 2023
2. Fitzgerald Home Marker
(approx. half a mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Montgomery.
 
Related marker. Click here for another marker that is related to this marker.
 
Also see . . .  The Fitzgerald Museum. Museum website homepage (Submitted on October 8, 2013.) 
 
F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald home (front view) image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2013
3. F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald home (front view)
Cloverdale Historic District, Montgomery, Alabama
F. Scott Fitzgerald image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, November 2, 2011
4. F. Scott Fitzgerald
This 1935 portrait of F. Scott Fitzgerald by David Silvette hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

“It was F. Scott Fitzgerald who named the self­indulgent 1920s the Jazz Age, and his best-selling novel This Side of Paradise became one of the decade's first literary landmarks. But his most enduring achievement was The Great Gatsby (1925), which, in meticulously crafted prose, wove a modern morality tale set against a backdrop of luxury. Fitzgerald and his talented wife, Zelda, experienced -- in New York, Paris, and Hollywood­ some of the glamorous life he evoked. But struggling with financial disappointments, alcoholism, and Zelda's mental illness, Fitzgerald also probed the destructive underside of the era's bright illusions. When he met artist David Silvette in 1935, Fitzgerald was suffering from an emotional breakdown. He agreed to pose, however, and considered this a swell portrait. His career as chronicler of the dreams and disappointments of contemporary life was cut short by his death five years later.” — National Portrait Gallery
Graves in St. Mary's Catholic Churhyard image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Allen C. Browne, December 14, 2009
5. Graves in St. Mary's Catholic Churhyard
F. Scott, Zelda and Scottie (Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith) are buried in the Cemetery of Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Rockville, Maryland.
F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald home (corner view) image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2013
6. F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald home (corner view)
Cloverdale Historic District, Montgomery, Alabama
F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald home (driveway view) image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2013
7. F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald home (driveway view)
Cloverdale Historic District, Montgomery, Alabama
This Side of Paradise image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2013
8. This Side of Paradise
The Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum is located in their former home.
Cloverdale Historic District image. Click for full size.
Photographed By Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2013
9. Cloverdale Historic District
Montgomery, Alabama
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on February 11, 2024. It was originally submitted on October 7, 2013, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 1,084 times since then and 30 times this year. Last updated on October 9, 2013, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on October 15, 2023, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.   3. submitted on October 7, 2013, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.   4, 5. submitted on May 7, 2015, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.   6, 7, 8, 9. submitted on October 7, 2013, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. • Bernard Fisher was the editor who published this page.

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