Some of the writing Hemingway did inthe house was done in an area of the third floor that faces south which was his room until he graduated from high school and went to Kansas City to be a reporter for that city's Star newspaper.
In 1919, he returned for a few months to recuperate from wounds he sustained in World War I when he was an ambulance driver. Also, there was a broken heart from a nurse he had fallen in love with.
These experiences led to his book "A Farewell to Arms."
From there, Hemingway went on to write magnificent books while being married four times, battling alcoholism and mental illness before committing suicide in 1961.
Kathy Fitzgerald, who lived on the first floor of the Hemingway house from 1977 to 2010, said that a lotof interesting people would stop by over the years as well as tour buses with a lot of people from foreign countries.
Still Have to Buy That Gas. Sorry Ernest. --DaCoot
Showing posts with label Oak Park Illinois. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oak Park Illinois. Show all posts
Monday, March 5, 2012
Got an Extra $525,000?: Hemingway's House For Sale-- Part 1
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
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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