Nyack

In 1944, when Carson's father died, her mother left Columbus and moved to Nyack, New York, where she bought this house. Carson lived with her mother and sister off and on in this house for a number of years, eventually buying the house from her mother. Carson was living in this house when she died, in 1967. In December of 2006 the McCullers house in Nyack was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

Carson's physician and long time friend, Dr. Mary E. Mercer, bequeathed the home in Nyack to Columbus State University's Carson McCullers Center. After Dr. Mercer's passing in late April 2013, the Center inherited not only the house but also many Carson-related artifacts and documents that shed light on the last ten years of Carson's life.

Due to the generosity of Dr. Mercer, CSU is one of the only universities to own two homes by a single author and now houses the world's most extensive research collection on Carson. An endowment in Dr. Mercer's name also has been created to continue these efforts in the curation and preservation of Carson's legacy.