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Jun 4, 2020 · For more than a decade, Ernest Hemingway called Key West home, producing some of his most famous works and immortalizing what had been a somewhat remote stretch of land in southern...
The Ernest Hemingway House was the residence of American writer Ernest Hemingway in the 1930s. The house is situated on the island of Key West, Florida. It is at 907 Whitehead Street, across from the Key West Lighthouse, close to the southern coast of the island.
21,015 reviews. #2 of 171 things to do in Key West. Speciality Museums. Closed now. 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Write a review. About. Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote in this for ten years. During that time he wrote seventy percent of his life-time works. Today we operate as a museum providing guided tours every fifteen minutes from nine to five.
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Ernest Hemingway House, house in Key West, Florida, U.S. that was the home of American novelist and short-story writer Ernest Hemingway and his second wife, fashion journalist Pauline Pfeiffer, from 1931 until their divorce in 1940. The house, as the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, is the most popular tourist attraction in Key West.
Throughout his career, Hemingway freely used the people and places he encountered in his literary works, and many Key Westers appear as characters in his novel “To Have and Have Not,” a novel about Key West during the Great Depression. Ernest and Pauline divorced in 1940, Hemingway took up residence in Cuba with his third wife, Martha Gellhorn.
Stop at the most significant address in Key West, Florida, and wander through the illustrious home and lush gardens of the Nobel Prize author, Ernest Hemingway. Take a guided tour of the Spanish Colonial house that Hemingway resided in during the 1930's, ornately decorated with furniture from Spain from the 17th and 18th-centuries.
Our Pool & Garden. One of the more stunning and unusual features of the Hemingway Home property is the in-ground swimming pool, an extraordinary luxury for a residential home in 1930s Key West.
