Ernest Hemingway Cottage
Ernest Hemingway Cottage | |
U.S. National Historic Landmark | |
Windemere 2018 | |
45°16′50.21″N 85°0′4.046″W / 45.2806139°N 85.00112389°W / 45.2806139; -85.00112389 | |
Built | 1900 |
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Architect | Grace Hall Hemingway |
NRHP reference No. | 68000026 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | November 24, 1968[1] |
Designated NHL | November 24, 1968[2] |
The Ernest Hemingway Cottage, also known as Windemere, was the boyhood summer home of author Ernest Hemingway, on Walloon Lake in Michigan, United States. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.[2][3]
History
In about 1898, Dr. Clarence Hemingway and his wife Grace Hall Hemingway purchased four lots at this site on the shore of Walloon Lake. In 1899, they identified a location to construct a cottage, which Grace designed.[4] In 1900, the couple spent $400[5] to have this cottage constructed on the site, which they dubbed "Windemere." The family spent summers at the cottage; Ernest Hemingway, born in 1899, spent every summer here from 1900 - 1920, save 1918. In 1904, they added a kitchen, connected to the main house with a breezeway.[6] Later, a smaller "annex" was constructed to provide more bedrooms.[4]
In 1921, Hemingway and Hadley Richardson honeymooned in the cottage.[6] Hemingway returned to the cottage only once more in his life, in the early 1950s.[6]
After his mother died, Hemingway was willed the cottage. Although he did not visit, he retained ownership until his own death in 1961. At his request, Hemingway's widow transferred ownership of the cottage to his younger sister Madelaine, who used it until her own death.[4] It later passed to Hemingway's nephew, Ernie Mainland,[5] but he died in 2021 and was survived by his wife Judy and their son Ken.[7]
Description
The Ernest Hemingway Cottage is a single-story frame structure with a gabled roof and white clapboard siding[6] measuring 20 feet by 40 feet.[5] The main section of the cottage contains the sleeping and living rooms, along with a bathroom and utility closet. A smaller section contains the kitchen; a breezeway, originally screened but now enclosed, connects the two sides. The interior is covered with unpainted clapboard. The kitchen has been modernized.[6]
A smaller "annex" building, constructed a few years after the main cottage, stands a few yards away. A modern garage is located behind the cottage.[6]
In literature
Hemingway used the northern Michigan setting in a number of his works,[6] most featuring his character Nick Adams. The cottage appears in "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife," "Ten Indians," "The Indians Moved Away," "The Last Good Country," and "Wedding Day."[8]
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- Windemere cottage (c. 1920)
- Windemere cottage (c. 1920)
- Windmere cottage and Walloon Lake, Michigan. (c. 1920)
- Cottage, looking north (1974)
- West end of the cottage, looking north (1974)
- East end of the cottage (1974)
- View of the annex, looking west (1974)
See also
- Birthplace of Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest and Mary Hemingway House, Ketchum, Idaho
- Ernest Hemingway House, Key West, Florida
- List of National Historic Landmarks in Michigan
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Emmet County, Michigan
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
- ^ a b "Ernest Hemingway House". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Archived from the original on June 6, 2011. Retrieved May 2, 2008.
- ^ Mendinghall, Joseph S. (1979). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Windemere / the Ernest Hemingway Cottage" (pdf). National Park Service.
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- ^ a b c O'Connor, John (October 1, 2015), "When Hemingway Was a Young Fisherman in Michigan", The New York Times
- ^ a b c d e f g Mendinghall, Joseph S. (1968), National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: The Ernest Hemingway Cottage, File Unit: National Register of Historic Places and National Historic Landmarks Program Records: Michigan, 1964 - 2013
- ^ Inc, Stone Funeral Home. "Obituary for Ernest Hemingway Mainland | Stone Funeral Home, Inc". Obituary for Ernest Hemingway Mainland | Stone Funeral Home, Inc.
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- A Farewell to Arms (1929)
- To Have and Have Not (1937)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
- Across the River and into the Trees (1950)
- The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
- Death in the Afternoon (1932)
- Green Hills of Africa (1935)
- A Moveable Feast (1964)
- Islands in the Stream (1970)
- The Dangerous Summer (1985)
- The Garden of Eden (1986)
- True at First Light (1999)
- Under Kilimanjaro (2005)
- "Up In Michigan" (1921)
- "Indian Camp" (1924)
- "The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife" (1925)
- "The End of Something" (1925)
- "The Three-Day Blow" (1925)
- "The Battler" (1925)
- "A Very Short Story" (1925)
- "Soldier's Home" (1925)
- "The Revolutionist" (1925)
- "Mr. and Mrs. Elliot" (1925)
- "Cat in the Rain" (1925)
- "Out of Season" (1925)
- "Cross Country Snow" (1925)
- "My Old Man" (1925)
- "Big Two-Hearted River" (1925)
- "Banal Story" (1926)
- "Today is Friday" (1926)
- "A Canary for One" (1927)
- "Fifty Grand" (1927)
- "Hills Like White Elephants" (1927)
- "The Killers" (1927)
- "The Undefeated" (1927)
- "Che Ti Dice La Patria?" (1927)
- "In Another Country" (1927)
- "Now I Lay Me" (1927)
- "A Simple Enquiry" (1927)
- "Ten Indians" (1927)
- "An Alpine Idyll" (1927)
- "A Pursuit Race" (1927)
- "On the Quai at Smyrna" (1930)
- "Fathers and Sons" (1932)
- "A Natural History of the Dead" (1932)
- "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" (1933)
- "A Day's Wait" (1933)
- "The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio" (1933)
- "A Way You'll Never Be" (1933)
- "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" (1936)
- "The Capital of the World" (1936)
- "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" (1936)
- "Old Man at the Bridge" (1938)
collections
- Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923)
- In Our Time (1925)
- Men Without Women (1927)
- Winner Take Nothing (1933)
- The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1961)
- The Fifth Column and Four Stories of the Spanish Civil War (1969)
- The Nick Adams Stories (1972)
- The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
- Ernest Hemingway: The Collected Stories (1995)
- "On Writing"
- 88 Poems (1979)
- Complete Poems
- Today is Friday (1926)
- The Fifth Column (1938)
- The Spanish Earth (1937 film)
journalism
- By-Line: Ernest Hemingway (1967)
- Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters, 1917–1961 (1981)
- Dateline: Toronto (1985)
- The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway (2011)
The Sun Also Rises |
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"The Killers" |
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A Farewell to Arms |
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To Have and Have Not |
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For Whom the Bell Tolls |
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The Old Man and the Sea |
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Other film adaptations |
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- Birthplace and boyhood home
- Michigan cottage
- Hemingway-Pfeiffer House
- Key West home
- Hotel Ambos Mundos, Havana home
- Finca Vigía, Cuba home
- Idaho home
- Bacall to Arms (1946 cartoon)
- Hemingway: On the Edge (1987 play)
- In Love and War (1996 film)
- Midnight in Paris (2011 film)
- Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012 film)
- Cooper & Hemingway: The True Gen (2013 documentary)
- Papa: Hemingway in Cuba (2015 film)
- Genius (2016 film)
- Hemingway (2021 documentary series)
- Nick Adams
- Floridita
- Pilar (boat)
- Iceberg theory
- Ernest Hemingway International Billfishing Tournament
- International Imitation Hemingway Competition
- Maxwell Perkins
- Adriana Ivancich
- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award
- Premio Hemingway
- Hello Hemingway (1990 film)
- Hemingway: A Portrait (1999 documentary)
- Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure (1999 documentary)
- Hemingway crater
- Kennedy Library Hemingway collection
- Elizabeth Hadley Richardson (first wife)
- Jack Hemingway (son)
- Pauline Pfeiffer (second wife)
- Patrick Hemingway (son)
- Gloria Hemingway (daughter)
- Martha Gellhorn (third wife)
- Mary Welsh Hemingway (fourth wife)
- Lorian Hemingway (granddaughter)
- Margaux Hemingway (granddaughter)
- John Hemingway (grandson)
- Mariel Hemingway (granddaughter)
- Grace Hall Hemingway (mother)
- Leicester Hemingway (brother)