Hemingway house
 Hemingway house. Exterior view |
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The Hemingway House is a private museum in Key West , Florida . It was the home of the US Nobel Prize laureate Ernest Hemingway and his second wife Pauline for around ten years . Hemingway first came to Key West in 1928 on the recommendation of his colleague John Dos Passos . In 1931 Pauline's uncle Gus gave him the building. The building was built in 1851 in American colonial style from shell limestone and has a wraparound porch. There is a large park with around 40 cats and some of the house is originally furnished. Hemingway wrote The Green Hills of Africa and Whom the Hour Strikes and liked to go deep sea fishing in Key West . In 1968 it was declared a National Historic Landmark .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Annette Bickel, Helmut Linde u. a .: Baedeker travel guide Florida. Mairdumont, Ostfildern 2015, ISBN 978-3-8297-1368-9 , p. 220.
- ^ Marion Landwehr: National Park Route USA - Florida. , Conbook, Meerbusch 2013, ISBN 978-3-943176-39-1 , p. 165
- ↑ Sebastian Moll: DuMont direct travel guide Miami: Key West & Everglades. Dumont, Cologne 2018, ISBN 9783770184392 , p. 71
- ↑ NPGallery Asset Detail. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Florida. National Park Service , accessed July 20, 2019.
Coordinates: 24 ° 33 '4 " N , 81 ° 48' 2.2" W.