DuBose Heyward, author of the 1925 novel Porgy, lived at 76 Church Street in Charleston, a few blocks from the Cabbage Row tenements that inspired his story. Heyward also collaborated with George Gershwin at Folly Beach while writing the opera libretto for Porgy and Bess; the novel and opera together represent one of the most consequential works of Southern literature of the 20th century.
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- ·The house at 76 Church Street is a private residence, exterior only.
- ·Paired naturally with the Catfish Row entry above.
- ·Gershwin stayed at a cottage on Folly Beach (not extant) during the 1934 summer he spent in Charleston researching the opera — that location may also merit a separate low-confidence entry.
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