Ernest Hemingway house - wikipedia Ernest Hemingway house Ernest Hemingway House U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. National Historic Landmark Hemingway House in Key West, Florida Location 907 Whitehead Street Key West, Florida United States Coordinates 24 ° 33 ′ 04 '' N 81 ° 48 ′ 02 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 24.55119 ° N 81.80062 ° W ﻿ / 24.55119 ; - 81.80062 Coordinates : 24 ° 33 ′ 04 '' N 81 ° 48 ′ 02 '' W ﻿ / ﻿ 24.55119 ° N 81.80062 ° W ﻿ / 24.55119 ; - 81.80062 Built 1851 NRHP reference # 68000023 Significant dates Added to NRHP November 24, 1968 Designated NHL November 24, 1968 The Ernest Hemingway House, officially known as the Ernest Hemingway Home & Museum, was the residence of author Ernest Hemingway in Key West, Florida, United States. It is located at 907 Whitehead Street, across from the Key West lighthouse, close to the Southern coast of the island. On November 24, 1968, it was designated a U.S. National Historic Landmark. Contents 1 History 2 Features 3 Gallery 4 See also 5 References 6 External links History Ernest Hemingway with sons and kittens at Finca Vigia, Cuba, ca. 1942 ( JFK Library ). The photo confirms son Patrick 's memory of Hemingway 's cats in Cuba. This was Hemingway 's home from 1931 to 1939, although he retained title to the home until he died. It is a private, for - profit landmark and tourist attraction now populated by six - and seven - toed cats that are descendants of Hemingway 's cats. The author 's second son, Patrick, who lived in the house, stated in a 1994 interview in The Miami Herald 's `` Tropic '' that his father had peacocks in Key West and that he owned cats in Cuba. However, a photo on display at the Hemingway Home in Key West shows Patrick and his younger brother, Gregory, in front of the Cuban water jar near the swimming pool, and Gregory is holding a white cat named Snow White. In addition to the photo showing Patrick and Gregory with Snow White, Hemingway 's wife, Pauline, wrote the following in a January 22, 1937, letter to Hemingway ( who was staying at the Barclay 's Hotel in New York City ) : Snow White has become his ( G 's ) fox fur that walks. Esther is having the same old cat looing troubles, with discussed alternatives of 1 ) getting little female, 2 ) letting him out and NOT worrying, which turns into letting him out and worrying, 3 ) castrating, 4 ) putting ad in paper asking for return of brown, blue - eyed cat with reward. Descendants of Hemingway 's original cats continue to live on the premises. In 2009, the cats became the subject of federal litigation after a museum visitor expressed concern about the cats ' welfare. United States Department of Agriculture investigators visited the museum and subsequently ordered the museum to take measures to tag the cats for identification and to shelter them. The museum fought the regulations in court but lost their case in the court of appeals, which ruled that the cats `` substantially affect '' interstate commerce and thus are protected by the Animal Welfare Act of 1966. The house does not sell cats but does continue a selective breeding program for them. It was in this house that Hemingway wrote some of his best work, including the short story classics `` The Snows of Kilimanjaro '' and `` The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber '', his novel To Have And Have Not, and the non-fiction work Green Hills of Africa. The house stands at an elevation of 16 feet ( 4.9 m ) above sea level but is still the second - highest site on the island. It was originally built in 1851 by Asa Tift, a marine architect and salvage wrecker, in a French Colonial estate style, out of limestone quarried from the site. As testament to its construction and location, it survived many hurricanes, and the deep basement remained, and still remains, dry. Before Hurricane Irma struck the Florida Keys in September 2017, the entire population of the island chain were ordered to evacuate by the federal government, but the museum 's curator, general manager and a team of Hemingway Home employees declined to leave the house or evacuate its cats. Several Hemingway Home employees stayed with the cats and the house. They all survived the storm intact. The Hemingways had spent the previous three years living in Key West but had rented housing, the last being a two - story home at 1301 Whitehead Street. Pauline ( the writer 's second wife ) found the Tift house for sale at a tax auction in 1931. Pauline 's Uncle Gus bought it for her and Ernest, for $8,000 cash, and presented it to them as a wedding gift. Features The house was one of the first on the island to be fitted with indoor plumbing and the first on the island to have an upstairs bathroom with running water, fed from a rain cistern on the roof. Also notable are a built - in fireplace and the first swimming pool in Key West, which was the only pool within 100 miles ( 160 km ) in the late 30s. In November 1936, in an interview with the Key West Citizen, Hemingway showed the reporter the location he had planned for a pool. It was Pauline Hemingway, though, who spent $20,000 ( equivalent in 2013 to $330,000 ) to have the deep well - fed pool built for her husband while he was away as a Spanish Civil War correspondent in 1938. When Hemingway returned, he was unpleasantly surprised by the cost and exclaimed, `` Well, you might as well have my last cent. '' This penny is embedded in concrete today near the pool. In 1937, when Ernest was in Spain, Pauline hired Ernest 's friend, driver, and handyman, Toby Bruce, to build the high brick wall that surrounds the house today. Another of Hemingway 's loves was boxing. He set up a ring in his yard and paid local fighters to box with him. He also refereed matches at Blue Heaven, then a saloon but now a restaurant, at 769 Thomas Street. Hemingway converted a urinal obtained after a renovation at Sloppy Joe 's bar into a water fountain in the yard, where it remains a prominent feature at the home, filled with water from the large Cuban jar and serving as one of many water sources for the grounds ' cats. The grounds of the house are maintained as a garden, with many tropical plants installed after Hemingway moved to Cuba. In Hemingway 's time, the grounds, like the island, were sparse and dry due to lack of water that only came later, with the Navy 's installation of a water line from mainland. The house was originally purchased for $ 8,000. After Hemingway 's death in 1961, the house was sold by his widow, Mary, to Mrs. Bernice Dickson, the founder of the museum. A prominent feature of the dining room is a Murano glass chandelier. Upstairs, a book display shows books owned by Hemingway while he lived in Key West -- including Red Pete the Ruthless by C.M. Bennett. Clearly visible is the inscription, `` Given to Hemingway -- 1936, '' from Sister Ida, a nun at the local St. Joseph 's convent. His writer 's studio in the second floor of a free - standing carriage house, and where he stayed briefly ( in the 1950s ) when visiting from his home in Cuba, was once connected by a second story walkway to the master bedroom. The walkway, shown in pictures from archives, has not been reconstructed. A garage on the property, with a caretaker 's apartment on the second floor, was built to house Ernest 's Buick automobile. In 1988, the house was a filming location of the 16th James Bond movie Licence to Kill. In the scene, Bond resigns from the secret service and then flees through the garden. In protection of M, the fictional guards watch from the Key West Light across the street. Gallery Front of the house A courtyard area Porch on the side including one of the dozens of cats Garden View from inside the house, showing wheelchair access View from inside the house Hemingway 's writing desk One of the many Polydactyl cats that live on the property See also Ernest Hemingway Cottage, Walloon Lake, Michigan Ernest and Mary Hemingway House, Ketchum, Idaho References ^ Jump up to : `` The House ''. The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum. Retrieved 2007 - 02 - 12. Jump up ^ `` National Register of Historical Places -- Florida ( FL ), Monroe County ''. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2007 - 02 - 12. ^ Jump up to : `` Hemingway, Ernest, House ''. National Historic Landmarks Program. Archived from the original on 2008 - 06 - 04. Retrieved 2008 - 09 - 18. Jump up ^ Williams, Carol J. ( July 29, 2007 ). `` Hemingway Estate Workers Challenge USDA Call on Cats ''. Sarasota Herald - Tribune. Jump up ^ Richey, Warren ( December 9, 2012 ). `` How Ernest Hemingway 's cats became a federal case ''. The Christian Science Monitor. Jump up ^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-fogwell/a-photo-tour-key-west_b_6124820.html Jump up ^ `` Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum ''. MyTravelGuide.com. Archived from the original on February 25, 2009. Retrieved 2008 - 09 - 18. Jump up ^ Astor, Maggie ( 11 September 2017 ). `` Hemingway 's Six - Toed Cats Ride Out Hurricane Irma in Key West ''. The New York Times. Retrieved 11 September 2017. ^ Jump up to : McLendon, James ( 1990 ). Papa : Hemingway in Key West. Key West, Fla. : Langley Press. pp. 57, 130. ISBN 0911607072. LCCN 88081528. Jump up ^ Thomas, Gary ( July 25, 2011 ). `` 1301 Whitehead Street - Key West -- Papa 's ' Other ' House ''. Key West Properties. Retrieved 16 February 2014. Jump up ^ House as a wedding gift Archived February 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine. Jump up ^ Reynolds, Michael ( 1997 ). Hemingway : The 1930s. New York : W.W. Norton & Co. p. 268. ISBN 0393343200. OCLC 35397885. External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ernest Hemingway House. Official website Hemingway House Photo Gallery `` Writings of Ernest Hemingway '', broadcast from the Ernest Hemingway House from C - SPAN 's American Writers Historic American Buildings Survey ( HABS ) No. FL - 179, `` Tift - Hemingway House, 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Monroe County, FL '', 12 photos, 7 measured drawings, 9 data pages, 1 photo caption page, supplemental material Ernest Hemingway Bibliography Novels The Torrents of Spring ( 1926 ) The Sun Also Rises ( 1926 ) A Farewell to Arms ( 1929 ) To Have and Have Not ( 1937 ) For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1940 ) Across the River and into the Trees ( 1950 ) The Old Man and the Sea ( 1952 ) Non-fiction Death in the Afternoon ( 1932 ) Green Hills of Africa ( 1935 ) Posthumous A Moveable Feast ( 1964 ) Islands in the Stream ( 1970 ) The Dangerous Summer ( 1985 ) The Garden of Eden ( 1986 ) True at First Light ( 1999 ) Under Kilimanjaro ( 2005 ) Short stories `` Indian Camp '' ( 1925 ) `` The Doctor and the Doctor 's Wife '' ( 1925 ) `` The End of Something '' ( 1925 ) `` The Three - Day Blow '' ( 1925 ) `` The Battler '' ( 1925 ) `` A Very Short Story '' ( 1925 ) `` Soldier 's Home '' ( 1925 ) `` The Revolutionist '' ( 1925 ) `` Mr. and Mrs. Elliot '' ( 1925 ) `` Cat in the Rain '' ( 1925 ) `` Out of Season '' ( 1925 ) `` Cross Country Snow '' ( 1925 ) `` My Old Man '' ( 1925 ) `` Big Two - Hearted River '' ( 1925 ) `` A Clean, Well - Lighted Place '' ( 1926 ) `` A Canary for One '' ( 1926 ) `` Fifty Grand '' ( 1927 ) `` Hills Like White Elephants '' ( 1927 ) `` The Killers '' ( 1927 ) `` The Undefeated '' ( 1927 ) `` Che Ti Dice La Patria ? '' ( 1927 ) `` In Another Country '' ( 1927 ) `` On the Quai at Smyrna '' ( 1930 ) `` Fathers and Sons '' ( 1932 ) `` A Day 's Wait '' ( 1933 ) `` The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio '' ( 1933 ) `` A Way You 'll Never Be '' ( 1933 ) `` The Snows of Kilimanjaro '' ( 1936 ) `` The Capital of the World '' ( 1936 ) `` The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber '' ( 1936 ) Short story collections Three Stories and Ten Poems ( 1923 ) In Our Time ( 1925 ) Men Without Women ( 1927 ) Winner Take Nothing ( 1933 ) The Fifth Column and the First Forty - Nine Stories ( 1938 ) The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1961 ) The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War ( 1969 ) The Nick Adams Stories ( 1972 ) The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway ( 1987 ) Ernest Hemingway : The Collected Stories ( 1995 ) Story fragments `` On Writing '' Poetry 88 Poems ( 1979 ) Complete Poems Letters and journalism Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917 -- 1961 ( 1981 ) Dateline : Toronto ( 1985 ) The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway ( 2011 ) Adaptations The Sun Also Rises 1957 film 1984 film Opera The Select ( The Sun Also Rises ) Ballet `` The Killers '' 1946 film 1956 film 1964 film Bukowski short story A Farewell to Arms 1932 film 1957 film 1966 TV series To Have and Have Not 1944 film The Breaking Point ( 1950 ) The Gun Runners ( 1958 ) Captain Khorshid ( 1987 ) For Whom the Bell Tolls 1943 film 1965 TV series Metallica song The Old Man and the Sea 1958 film 1990 miniseries 1999 film Other film adaptations The Macomber Affair ( 1947 ) The Snows of Kilimanjaro ( 1952 ) Hemingway 's Adventures of a Young Man ( 1962 ) Islands in the Stream ( 1977 ) See also Nick Adams Michigan cottage Idaho house Key West home Hotel Ambos Mundos, Havana home Finca Vigía, Cuba home Pilar ( boat ) The Spanish Earth ( 1937 film ) Bacall to Arms ( 1946 cartoon ) Hello Hemingway ( 1990 film ) In Love and War ( 1996 film ) Hemingway & Gellhorn ( 2012 film ) Cooper & Hemingway : The True Gen ( 2013 documentary ) Papa : Hemingway in Cuba ( 2015 film ) Hemingway Foundation / PEN Award Kennedy Library Hemingway collection Family Elizabeth Hadley Richardson ( first wife ) Jack Hemingway ( son ) Pauline Pfeiffer ( second wife ) Patrick Hemingway ( son ) Gregory Hemingway ( son ) Martha Gellhorn ( third wife ) Mary Welsh Hemingway ( fourth wife ) Grace Hall Hemingway ( mother ) Leicester Hemingway ( brother ) U.S. National Register of Historic Places in Florida Lists by county Alachua Baker Bay Bradford Brevard Broward Calhoun Charlotte Citrus Clay Collier Columbia DeSoto Dixie Duval Escambia Flagler Franklin Gadsden Gilchrist Glades Gulf Hamilton Hardee Hendry Hernando Highlands Hillsborough Holmes Indian River Jackson Jefferson Lake Lee Leon Levy Liberty Madison Manatee Marion Martin Miami - Dade Monroe Nassau Okaloosa Okeechobee Orange Osceola Palm Beach Pasco Pinellas Polk Putnam Santa Rosa Sarasota Seminole St. Johns St. Lucie Sumter Suwannee Taylor Union Volusia Wakulla Walton Washington Lists by city Miami Other lists Black Public Schools Bridges Multiple Property Submissions National Historic Landmarks Woman 's clubhouses Keeper of the Register History of the National Register of Historic Places Property types Historic district Contributing property Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ernest_Hemingway_House&oldid=839720732 '' Categories : Houses completed in 1851 Biographical museums in Florida Ernest Hemingway Historic Florida architecture 1989 AIA survey listings in Monroe County History of Key West, Florida Houses in Key West, Florida Landmarks in Key West, Florida Literary museums in the United States Museums in Key West, Florida National Historic Landmarks in Florida National Register of Historic Places in Key West, Florida Historic house museums in Florida Tourist attractions in Key West, Florida Historic American Buildings Survey in Florida 1851 establishments in Florida Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Coordinates on Wikidata All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from September 2017 Articles with unsourced statements from December 2016 Talk Contents About Wikipedia Français עברית Nederlands Edit links This page was last edited on 5 May 2018, at 06 : 42. 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Question: what famous author lived in key west florida
Answer: Ernest Hemingway