Willa Cather, Nebraska's Pulitzer Prize-winning author, spent her formative years in Red Cloud. Cather encountered here in her youth. Visit six period structures that influenced her writing, including her childhood home, the Catholic and Episcopal churches, the Garber Bank, the Burlington Depot, and the Pavelka Farmstead, home of Annie Pavelka, the basis for the title character of Cather's most famous novel, My Antonia. Admission fees are waived for NSHS members .
Tours are available year round.
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