Willa Cather House, also known as Willa Cather Childhood Home, is the house in Red Cloud, Nebraska where author Willa Cather grew up.
The house was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.
The house is one of eight structures that make up the Willa Cather State Historic Site, which is operated by the Nebraska State Historical Society.
Famous quotes containing the words willa cather, cather and/or house:
“From the time the Englishman’s bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.”
—Willa Cather (1876–1947)
“To people off alone, as we were, there is something stirring about finding evidences of human labour and care in the soil of an empty country. It comes to you as a sort of message, makes you feel differently about the ground you walk over every day.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.”
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931)