The Ernest Hemingway House was built in 1851 by Asa Tift a Marine Architect. It became Ernest's and his second wife Pauline's home in 1931 as a gift from Pauline's Uncle Gus. Ernest lived there until their divorce in 1939. But he continued visits to Key West up until his death in 1961. The house was rented out after Pauline's death in 1951 and sold to Bernice Dickerson after Ernest's passing. Mrs. Dickerson turned the house into a museum in 1964 and it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1968. It was in this house that Hemingway wrote "To Have and Have Not", "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" , "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" as well as many others.
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