From the Feb.26th Chicago Tribune "Hemingway's House in Wright's Shadow" by Ted Gregory.
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, and spent much of his first twenty years in that town outside of Chicago. His boyhood home, essentially a three-flat, was put up for sale a couple weeks ago for $525,000.
The 4,200 square-foot home was designed in part by Hemingway's mother, Grace, who lived there until 1936, eight years after her husband committed suicide in their second-floor bedroom.
After that, it was divided into three apartments. In 2001, the Hemingway Foundation bought the home for $525,000. There were plans to turn it into "a unique and dynamic cultural center" but that didn't come to pass.
Ernest Hemingway lived here from age 7 to 17. However, his prominence is overshadowed by that of another Oak Park resident, Frank Lloyd Wright.
I'd Buy It, But Have to Put Gas in the Tank. --Cooter
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