Hemingway’s house for sale

The boyhood home of Ernest Hemingway is on the market for $525,000.

By Felicia Dechter Columnist February 22, 2012 - The Clarence and Grace Hemingway home, 600 N. Kenilworth, is currently owned by the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, which purchased the house, a multi-family dwelling with three apartments, from a private owner in 2002. The foundation had the idea of turning the home back to its original glory and using it for foundation events, readings, educational events and other functions pertaining to its mission. However, the organization investigated uses that would further its mission and came to the conclusion the uses either don’t fit the mission or are not attainable for other reasons, Scheuring said.The home was designed by architect Henry G. Fiddelke, in collaboration with Grace Hall Hemingway, Ernest’s mother. The Hemingway family moved to the house in 1906, and apparently it was in this home that Ernest recovered from his war wounds and the romantic misfortune he later writes about in his semi-autographical novel, “A Farewell to Arms.” 

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