Opening Times:
Sinclair Lewis Interpretive Center Museum is Open Year Round Monday - Friday 8:30 - 4:30
Memorial Day to Labor Day open 7 days a week with Saturday and Sunday 9:00 - 5:00
Description:
Sinclair Lewis Famous Author Worldwide. First American to win Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930. Wrote 23 Novels, first one Hike & the Areoplane, written under the pen name Tom Graham turns 100 this year.
Sauk Centre Minnesota is the Hometown of Sinclair Lewis won the Nobel Prize for his writings of the { Big Five } Novels. MAIN STREET, BABBITT, ARROWSMITH, ELMER GANTRY and DODSWORTH.
We have his writing desk, books for sale, copy of his Nobel Prize, A front porch replica of his Boyhood home, and the Museum takes you from " Gopher Prairie " to around the World and back and ends with his Urn that his ashes arrived in from Rome, Italy. After his death in January 10, 1951. Yes Sinclair came home to rest in Greenwood Cemetery. He really liked his small town life, and thanks to Mr. Lewis We are" The Original Main Street of the World."
Come join us for Sinclair Lewis Days 2012: July 15-22
Also visit Boyhood Home and Grave site at the Greenwood Cemetery.
Explore the St. Cloud Connections of Sinclair Lewis. ( A Celebration as the SCSU
Alumni House is renamed the Lewis House. Honoring Dr. Claude Lewis,
brother of Sinclair Lewis. Come join us in St. Cloud June 5th to 9th for more
information click on brochure Main Street to Eighth Street below).