Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum - Key West Museum

  • Address: 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL 33040-7473
  • Phone: 3052941136
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  • Website:www.hemingwayhome.com
Average Rating
4.5
 55+ reviews
from 3 sources
Yahoo! Travel
4.0
 32+ reviews
Yelp
5.0
 22+ reviews
Frommers
1.0
 1+ reviews

Estimated Price: From $6

Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum
907 Whitehead Street
Key West, FL 33040-7473

Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum Details

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  • A must for visitors to Key West, this historic property offers guided tours through Hemingway's former home, where he lived and wrote from 1928 until 1940. The attractive Spanish Colonial house was built in 1851. You will see Ernest Hemingway's writing studio and his swimming pool, the first one ... more on Yahoo! Travel
  • A must for visitors to Key West, this historic property offers guided tours through Hemingway's former home, where he lived and wrote from 1928 until 1940. The attractive Spanish Colonial house was built in 1851. You will see Ernest Hemingway's writing studio and his swimming pool, the first one ... more on Homeandabroad.com
  • Hemingway's particularly handsome stone Spanish Colonial house, built in 1851, was one of the first on the island to be fitted with indoor plumbing and a built-in fireplace. It also has the first swimming pool built on Key West (look for the penny he pressed into the cement near the pool). The au... more on Frommers
  • This is the house that author Ernest Hemingway lived in from 1928 to 1939, and continued to visit regularly even after he moved to Cuba, until his death in 1961. It was here that he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Snows of Kilimanjaro, A Farewell to Arms, and other great works of literature. T... more on Weather.com
  • Guided tours of Ernest Hemingway's home are full of anecdotes about the author's life in the community and his household quarrels with wife Pauline. While living here between 1931 and 1942, Hemingway wrote about 70% of his life's work, including For Whom the Bell Tolls. Few of the family's belong... more on Fodor's

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5.0
I can't wait to take my father.

I was my first time in the Keys and my aunt took me to the Hemingway House. I love Hemingway I love to read about him and his books that he has writen. My favorite is the old man in the sea. The favorite thing in the house was the light fixures in the house that his wife had collected. I really d... A Yahoo! User, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

5.0
Kristen F. 's review

Oh man, Hemingway's house was fantasic. Ernest Hemingway lived in this house from 1931 to 1940. They had fifty or sixty cats wondering around, some with ... a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

Not for Toddlers

I wanted to stop at the Ernest Hemingway House because I'm into literature, and I'm glad we did ... a user of Trekaroo. Read full review on Trekaroo

3.0
Take your photo and leave

(October 05, 2005 00:00)

Historical house with some interesting stories that will occupy 15 minutes of your time. Take a que from the above title. awaggs5, a user of Yahoo! Travel. Read full review on Yahoo! Travel

5.0
Carole G. 's review

What a delight this was. Being cat lovers; this was our must see destination and our first stop on our tour of Key West. a user of yelp.com. Read full review on Yelp

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