The Fitzgerald Museum is the only museum dedicated to the lives and legacies of Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald in the world. It is the last of four extant homes that survived their travels across the world, and the only home in which they both worked on their perspective novels Tender is the Night and Save Me the Waltz.
Zelda Sayre was a native of Montgomery and spent her formative years in the Cottage Hill neighborhood until her marriage to Scott in 1920. Their courtship in Montgomery would mark the beginning of the 'Jazz Age'. They would return several times, including the car drive from New York to Montgomery which was the basis of the 'Cruise of the Rolling Junk' and lived at the Felder Avenue home from 1931 until the spring of 1932. Her father's death and the break down of the Fitzgeralds’ marriage would propel Zelda from Montgomery to the Phipp's Clinic in Baltimore and Scott & Scottie would soon follow. This would be the last home that the Fitzgeralds lived in as a family.
Zelda returned to Montgomery after Scott's death in 1940 and lived on Sayre Street next door to her sister Marjorie and with her mother Minnie, just a few blocks down from her childhood home on Pleasant Avenue, until 1947. Eventually, their daughter Scottie would return to Montgomery in the early 1970s and live in the Old Cloverdale neighborhood until her death in 1986. She has three surviving children; her two daughters continue to oversee the Fitzgerald Trust today.
The Felder Ave. home was originally built between 1905-1910 as a single family home. It would be subsidized into apartments when the Fitzgeralds moved out in 1932. In 1986, it was set to be demolished and our founders, the McPhillips, personally purchased the home and donated it as the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum.
MUSEUM HOURS: WEDNESDAY THRU SUNDAY, 10 AM TO 3 PM
The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum is the only museum dedicated to the lives and legacies of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. Our mission is to preserve their histories and artifacts while continuing their legacies by promoting understanding and education in the literary arts, fine arts, music and dance to a local and international audience.
The Fitzgerald Museum is registered as a 501(c)3 non-profit in United States. All donations are fully tax-deductible as charitable donations for the year in which they are made.