Built in 1957, it was the home of author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) from then until her death.

It is a modest single-story house, built out of concrete blocks stuccoed exterior and a flat tar-and-gravel roof.

[5] Hurston, a native of Notasulga, Alabama, but who lived and wrote about Eatonville, Florida, was one of the leading female African-American writers of the mid-20th century.

[4] The house is a stop on the Zora Neale Hurston Dust Tracks Heritage Trail.

[6] Other stops on the trail include the Zora Neale Hurston Branch Library, a "Zora Exhibit" at the Agape Senior Recreation Center (formerly the St. Lucie County Welfare Home, where Hurston died in 1960), and the Garden of Heavenly Rest Cemetery, where she is buried.