The Estate of Jack Kerouac has confirmed that the scroll manuscript for On the Road will be housed and publicly displayed in Lowell, Massachusetts, at the Jack Kerouac Center following its purchase by Zach Bryan at auction for $12.1 million. Bryan also purchased the scroll manuscript for The Dharma Bums, along with a collection of Kerouac's personal letters, all of which will also go on display. The Jack Kerouac Center, currently under construction, will be housed in the Saint Jean Baptiste Church building in the author's hometown of Lowell. The church, where Kerouac once served as an altar boy and where mourners gathered for his 1969 funeral Mass, was purchased by Bryan in 2025 to be converted into a museum. 📸: Lucas Creighton