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Located in historic Lynchburg, Virginia, the Anne Spencer House & Garden  Museum is the former home  of the renowned Harlem Renaissance poet and has been named a Virginia Historic Landmark and is also on the National Register of Historic Places. With up to 95% of the original house and cottage furnishings
still in place, it is considered one of the most intact house museums in the United States. Anne Spencer’s garden is also the only known restored garden of an African American in the United States.  Spencer was a poet, civil rights leader, advocate, and librarian. Her home and garden served as a gathering place for leading African Americans such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston
Hughes, and Martin Luther King, Jr. You can purchase your tickets to the tour that the ADSVA has booked directly from the Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum here. Make sure you choose the May 31st noon tour.