Come stay in the home of literary legend F. Scott Fitzgerald and Montgomery native, painter, writer and dancer, Zelda Fitzgerald as Fitzgerald Museum opens the storied family home to overnight guests in Montgomery, Alabama.  

High atop the native magnolia trees sits a quaint two bedroom apartment housed in the former home of Jazz Age celebrities F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald in Montgomery, Alabama. ​It is the last of four surviving homes throughout their travels across the world; the rest are private residences and this is the only dedicated museum to F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald in the world. The family lived here from 1931 until 1932, writing portions of their respective novels, 'Save Me The Waltz' and 'Tender Is The Night' during their time in Montgomery. After the family moved, the home was subsidized into four apartments.

Over the past year, the Fitzgerald Museum has been actively furnishing and preparing the vacant two-bedroom apartment located on the second floor of the home for a new writer's residency and a lodging space open to the public.

"The residency space is a unique opportunity to bring writers, scholars, creatives and anyone with a genuine love of the Fitzgerald's into the museum and experience Zelda's Montgomery. I spend most of my time here and it is such a unique space. It has to be shared" said Sara Powell, Executive Director at the Fitzgerald Museum. 

The two bedroom apartment features modern amenities, a full kitchen and bathroom.  The master bedroom includes a Queen sized bed; the secondary bedroom includes two Twin sized beds. There is a separate living room, dining room and sun porch- all with views of the sprawling magnolia tree on the front lawn. Guests have access to a complimentary tour of the museum, located in the downstairs portion of the historic Craftsman style home.

To make a booking, please contact: thefitzgeraldmuseum@gmail.com or book directly with Airbnb - www.airbnb.co.uk/rooms/17459957

The two-bedroom apartment starts from £110.00 per night. Price is based on stay in May 2018.

Historic Cloverdale is one of Montgomery's oldest and most unique neighbourhoods and only a mile from downtown. Within walking distance of the apartment are some of the city's premier local restaurants, bars, coffee shops and an independent movie theatre. The neighbourhood itself designed with walkability in mind, so every few blocks, you'll find a small greenspace. Each home is unique in its design and craftsmanship and little has changed since it was founded in 1892. You'll find traces of the history marked by historic plaques peppered among the homes.

Guests are also shown some of the other local Fitzgerald landmarks. Zelda, a Montgomery native, grew up one neighbourhood over in historic Cottage Hill, and was said to have danced in the Court Square fountain. Also, though the Fitzgeralds always maintained that they met at the Montgomery Country Club, local old-timers claim the couple really met in the basement of Winter Place, a Cottage Hill mansion well-known for its risqué parties—there's even a rumoured bootleggers' tunnel connecting the mansion to the river.

Note to editors:

The Fitzgerald Museum is the only dedicated museum to the lives and legacies of F. Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald in the world. It is the last of four extant homes that survived their travels across the world. Their gypsy lifestyle  placed them in a number of locations including New York, Paris, Italy, Minnesota and Montgomery, Alabama (to name a few). 

Zelda Sayre was a native of Montgomery and remained here 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 a tale of the 'Cruise of the Rolling Junk' and live here from 1931 until the spring of 1932. Her father's death would propel her from Montgomery to the Phipp's Clinic in Baltimore and Scott & Scottie would soon follow. This would be the last home that the Fitzgerald's lived in as a family.

She would eventually return after Scott's death in 1940 and live on Sayre Street, just a few blocks down from her childhood home on Pleasant Avenue, with her mother until 1946. Eventually, their daughter Scottie would return to Montgomery in 1975 and live here until her death in 1985. She has three surviving children; her two daughters continue to control the Fitzgerald Trust today.

The structure itself was originally built in 1909 as a single family home. It would be subsidized into apartments when the Fitzgerald's moved out in 1932. In 1986, it was set to be demolished and founders, the McPhillips, personally purchased the home and donated it as the Scott & Zelda Fitzgerald Museum. Today, it is run on the support and generosity of the Fitzgerald community locally and abroad! 

For more information please  visit: www.thefitzgeraldmuseum.org / www.alabama.travel