Anne Spencer House and Garden Museum

Discover the Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum

Former home of the Harlem Renaissance poet, featuring the only restored garden of an African American in the United States. Find us at 1313 Pierce Street in historic Lynchburg, VA.

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Welcome!

Located in historic Lynchburg, Virginia, the Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum is the former home of renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer and is named a Virginia Landmark on the National Register of Historic Places. With up to 95% of the original house and cottage furnishings still in place today, 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. Anne 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.
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Check out the Trailer for our film!

The Garden Conservancy has announced the release of a new film trailer that highlights its forthcoming documentary film about the Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum in Lynchburg, VA. The completed documentary will be released later this year.
The upcoming documentary chronicles the site as it evolves from a home and gathering place to a nationally significant cultural landscape that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Virginia Landmarks Register.

What’s New?

Shaun Spencer-Hester, granddaughter of Anne and Edward Spencer, offers a glimpse into the Anne Spencer House and Garden and introduces us to the exciting new additions to the Museum.

Learn more about how these new exhibitions were created in our Community Engagement page. Thank you to the students at UVA and Project Pipeline for their incredible work!