Zora Neale Hurston Home

ALTHOUGH BETTER KNOWN FOR HER 1937 NOVEL

THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD,

FLORIDIAN ZORA NEALE HURSTON MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS

TO THE STUDY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN FOLKLORE.

HURSTON, A STUDENT OF NOTABLE ANTHROPOLOGIST FRANZ BOAS AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, WAS ONE OF THE FEW ...

The Zora Neale Hurston Home

In 1957 Zora Neale Hurston moved to Fort Pierce, and was offered a small two-bedroom house, rent free, by Dr. C.C. Benton, a family friend from her Eatonville childhood. Dr. Benton, a respected physician, had worked to establish the School ...