Historic Herndon Home Museum

This guide to the Historic Herndon Home Museum in Atlanta opens on a Boston playbill in nineteen oh four, where Adrienne McNeil Herndon performed Antony and Cleopatra under a stage name, hiding that a Black woman from segregated Georgia stood beneath Cleopatra's crown. It follows her training at two elite drama schools, the color line that ended her bookings after Boston, and her return to Atlanta University, where she directed The Merchant of Venice in nineteen oh five. The fifteen-room Beaux-Arts mansion she later designed with her husband Alonzo was built by Black craftsmen and carpenters, her staging instincts running through every room.