Ernest Hemingway's Last Oak Park, Home

This was Ernest Hemingway's final Oak Park Home. The family lived in this house from 1906 to 1920.

Hemingway lived here while he attended Oak Park and River Forest High School from 1913 until 1917.

After leaving high school he went to work for The Kansas City Star as a reporter. In 1918 Hemingway became a Red Cross ambulance driver in Italy.

Hemingway Interim House

One of the tests to see if a home is historic is who lived there. Ernest Hemingway lived in this house for a short time in 1905 and 1906 while the family awaited completion of their new house a few blocks away.

Known as the Hemingway Interim House, this Oak Park home is a good example of historic preservation at work.

The house was located on the site of what is now the new Oak Park Library and was going to be torn down. The current owners thought it worthy of preservation, bought the house for $1.00 and moved it to a new site.

Ernest Hemingway's Oak Park Home

The village of Oak Park is rich in history and was the boyhood home of author Ernest Hemingway.

In this Victorian, Queen Anne style house Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899.

The house was built around 1890 for Ernest Hall, Hemingway's grandfather. The Hemingway's lived in this house until 1905.