NRHP Reference # 91002047 Area less than one acre Name Zora Hurston | Built 1957 Opened 1957 Built by Benton, C.C. | |
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Coordinates 27°27′39″N 80°20′31″W / 27.46083°N 80.34194°W / 27.46083; -80.34194Coordinates: 27°27′39″N 80°20′31″W / 27.46083°N 80.34194°W / 27.46083; -80.34194 Similar Sunrise Theatre, St Lucie County Regional, Heathcote Botanical Gardens, Fort Pierce Inlet State Park, National Navy UDT‑SEA | ||
Architectural style Vernacular architecture | ||
The Zora Neale Hurston House was the home of author Zora Neale Hurston in Fort Pierce, Florida. It was originally located at 1734 School Court but was moved north 500 feet in 1995 to 1734 Avenue L to allow for expansion of Lincoln Park Academy, the school at which Hurston taught. On December 4, 1991, it was designated as a U.S. National Historic Landmark.
The house was in a development of new rental houses built by Dr. C.C. Benton, a medical doctor, who had sold 10 nearby acres for construction of "a new negro high school" nearby.
The house is a stop on the Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail. Other stops on the trail include the Zora Neale Hurston Branch Library, a "Zora Exhibit" at the Agape Senior Recreation Center (formerly the St. Lucie County Welfare Home, where Hurston died in 1960), and the Garden of Heavenly Rest Cemetery where she is buried.