Janis Joplin’s Home Gets a Historic Marker

Janis Joplin’s childhood home in Port Arthur, Texas, had a historic marker dedicated in its honor over the weekend. The occasion was bittersweet. Janis would have been 65 on Saturday, instead, she overdosed and died in 1970.

The current home owners had no idea when they bought the house ten years ago. "One day I just saw a TV crew out here shooting and I thought ‘What’s going on,’" Alicia Sanchez said. "I asked what they were doing and they told me that she (Joplin) used to live here. And then I started having people knock on my door asking to see my house." Sanchez says she doesn’t do tours, but people can take photos of the house if they’d like.

Now that there’s a historical designation on the front of the house, everyone will know about the house’s famous former resident.