Savannah, GA

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.” ― Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor's childhood home in Savannah has been transformed into a museum house dedicated to the work and life of the acclaimed novelist and short story writer. O'Connor lived in this house at 207 East Charlton Street from her birth in 1925 until 1938. Visitors have flocked to the writer's childhood home, one of the few museum houses in the country that is restored to the Depression-era. There, visitors receive a guided tour that reveals the quiet domestic life of the young Mary Flannery and her family. The home has held Pat Conroy's announcement of the 20 finalists for National Book Awards. The home sits just across the square from St. John's Cathedral, an obvious and life-long influence on her life. The house is a modest, three story row house with narrow rooms decorated with a few items from the O'Connors' life there, but still holds so much passion and emotion inside of its walls. The tour of the home includes both levels of the home that the O'Connor family occupied.