Flannery O'Connor House - 207 E. Charlton Street, Lafayette Square.
This three-story house once was home to Edward and Regina O'Connor, whose only child, Mary Flannery, dropped the Mary in college and became famous as one of this country's outstanding authors. Flannery at age six was seen in a national newscast with her pet chicken, which she had trained to walk backward. She died in 1964 of lupus erythematosus, the same disease that had claimed her father in 1941. Her childhood home is now a house museum where readings of her work are presented regularly.