Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum in Monroe County, Florida

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Monroe County attraction

Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum

Monroe County · South Florida & the Keys

The house at 907 Whitehead Street where Ernest Hemingway lived through the 1930s, built in 1851.

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ABOUT THIS PLACE

Asa Tift, a marine salvage merchant, built it out of local limestone, and Hemingway and his second wife Pauline bought it in 1931. He did a great deal of his work here. The house is furnished as it was lived in rather than restaged, with the Pilar and photographs of his fishing among the displays in the living room. Then there are the cats. A ship's captain gave Hemingway a white six-toed cat called Snow White, and her descendants still live on the grounds; the trait is inherited and a good many of the animals here carry it. Guided tours run through the house and gardens and the museum opens daily from nine in the morning until five, with walk-in visits taken. There is a shop, and the museum takes group visits, weddings and tours given in other languages. Webcams on the site let people watch the grounds from anywhere, which is a peculiarly modern thing for a house like this

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