F. Scott Fitzgerald
Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota
Marker Inscription
F. Scott Fitzgerald House has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 31, 1935. This site possesses exceptional value in commemorating or illustrating the history of the United States.
Erected by Department of the Interior National Park Service
The Story
F. Scott Fitzgerald, the great chronicler of the Jazz Age, was born in St. Paul in 1896, and this house is tied to his Minnesota roots. Designated a National Historic Landmark, it honors the origins of a writer whose novels captured the glamour and disillusionment of early 20th-century America. The recognition marks the city's claim on one of its most famous native sons.
Why it matters
Fitzgerald's work came to define the Roaring Twenties in the American imagination, and his St. Paul beginnings ground that legacy in the Midwest.
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