F. Scott Fitzgerald House

Infobox_nrhp | name =Fitzgerald, F. Scott, House
nrhp_type =nhl

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caption = The F. Scott Fitzgerald House (on the right), one unit of a rowhouse.
location= 599 Summit Avenue Saint Paul, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 44
lat_minutes = 56
lat_seconds = 29.5
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 93
long_minutes = 7
long_seconds = 30.5
long_direction = W
locmapin = Minnesota
area =
built =1889
architect= William H. Willcox and Clarence H. Johnston, Sr.
architecture= Late Victorian
designated= November 11, 1971cite web|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=1109&ResourceType=Building
title=F. Scott Fitzgerald House|date=2007-09-29|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing|publisher=National Park Service]
added = November 11, 1971cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]
governing_body = Private
refnum=71000440

The F. Scott Fitzgerald House, also known as Summit Terrace, in Saint Paul, Minnesota is part of a rowhouse designed by William H. Willcox and Clarence H. Johnston, Sr.. The house, at 599 Summit Avenue, is listed as a National Historic Landmark for its association with author F. Scott Fitzgerald. The design of the rowhouse was called the "New York Style", where each unit was given a distinctive character similar to rowhouses in eastern cities.cite book|pages=p. 60|title=St. Paul's Architecture: A History|last=Hess|first=Jeffrey A.|coauthors=Clifford Larson|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|location=Minneapolis, Minnesota|date=2006|id=ISBN 0-8166-3590-0] Architecture critic Larry Millett describes it as, "A brownstone row house that leaves no Victorian style unaccounted for, although the general flavor is Romanesque Revival."cite book |last=Millett |first=Larry |authorlink=Larry Millett |title=AIA Guide to the Twin Cities: The Essential Source on the Architecture of Minneapolis and St. Paul |year=2007 |publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press |location= |isbn=0-87351-540-4 |pages=142 ]

Fitzgerald's parents, Edward and Mollie, moved to Minnesota in 1914 while F. Scott Fitzgerald was a student at Princeton University. They lived in the unit at 593 Summit Avenue for a while, then moved to the 599 Summit Avenue unit in 1918. In July and August 1919, Fitzgerald rewrote the manuscript that became his first novel, "This Side of Paradise". "Although Summit Terrace was only one of several Saint Paul locations in which Fitzgerald lived, it typifies the environment on which he drew for some of the finest of his later stories."

It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.citation|title=PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/71000440.pdf National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Summit Terrace / F. Scott Fitzgerald House] |376 KB|author=Robert Gamble and Edmund Preston|publisher=National Park Service and PDFlink| [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/71000440.pdf Accompanying 6 images] |2.03 MB]

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*cite web|author=Lavoie, C. (historian) and Lowe, Jet (photographer)|title=F. Scott Fitzgerald House (Summit Terrace), MN0133, HABS MN-83|publisher=Historic American Buildings Survey, National Park Service via Library of Congress|date=photos 28 October 1987, survey January 1989|url=http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?hh:1:./temp/~pp_lu0x::@@@mdb=fsaall,app,brum,detr,swann,look,gottscho,pan,horyd,genthe,var,cai,cd,hh,yan,bbcards,lomax,ils,prok,brhc,nclc,matpc,iucpub,tgmi,lamb|accessdate=2007-10-25