Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum
Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum holds a special place in the history of museums. Anne Spencer, the internationally acclaimed poet part of the Harlem Renaissance, lived at the house. Anne was the only black woman and Virginian in the Norton Anthology of Modern American and British Poetry. She wrote one of the best poems in the beautiful gardens, “Edan Kraal.”
The garden is 45 by 125 feet and is located at the back of the house. It extends through the block to the street behind. It has evolved as early photographs from the 1910s show rows of vegetables, a fruit tree, and a grape arbor. The 1920s saw the addition of flowers and decorative iron fencing.