732 Alabama is the homesite of Charles and Mary Langston. There is a marker at this location, placed by Pinckney students in 1991, it is located near the curb. Langston recalls his grandmother's house as having two bedrooms and a side sitting room. Off to one side was a shed kitchen, and behind the house stood a woodshed, an outhouse and a pump for drawing water. The neighborhood was quiet and shaded, nestled at the foot of a hill crowned by Kansas University. A duplex is now located at this site. The house at 736 Alabama is still standing and is very much like the former Langston home.

810 W. 6th is Pinckney School. Langston Hughes entered Lawrence School for his second grade after spending first grade in Topeka where his mother was working. The building he attended has been replace by the current Pinckney School.

731 New York is the homesite of James and Mary Reed. There is a marker at this location, placed by Pinckney students in 1991, it is located near the curb. Langston lived at this address between 1909 and 1915 when he moved from Lawrence for good. "For me," Hughes would write, "there have never been any better people in the world. I loved them very much." A description of the Reeds appears on page 15 of the Arnold Rampersad Biography.

900 New York is the location of the AME Church. Langston attended this church with Mary Reed. Mary Reed was the Sunday School Superintendent for many years. Langston attended, sometimes reluctantly. In his autobiography, Langston stated that in the black churches of Lawrence he heard the rhythms that influenced his poetry.

804 Massachusetts was the location of Barteldes Feed Store. Langston had a job collecting seeds probably for this establishment. The building is little changed.

936 New York was the location where Langston lived when he attended New York School. He was in the 4th grade and a number of his classmates remember him as a bright boy who sometimes spoke up in an independent manner. Langston continued in Lawrence schools through the 8th grade.

9th and Vermont is now the Lawrence Arts Center, formerly the Lawrence Free Public Library. Here Langston read. He stated that it was in Lawrence that "books happened to me."

1605 Oak Hill, the gravesites of Charles and Mary Langston are located at Oak Hill Cemetery.

Burcham Park located near the Kansas River may have been one of the spots where Langston sat and looked out across the river and wrote some of his poetry.

520 Louisiana, Dillard Home, Built 1889-Jesse Dillard, born in slavery and without formal education, built this home with his own hands for his wife, Fannie and daughter, Mary. Dillard was employed as a railroad porter and later as a janitor. Mary Dillard became a teacher at Pinckney School and taught the young Langston Hughes, who became a well-known poet, in her segregated classroom. She became principal of Lincoln School (now Ballard Center) in North Lawrence and continued to live here.
(From the school segment of the Langston Hughes' committee)