On Hemingway’s Rounds in Key West
Key West has long been loved for its playful spirit, forever attracting all genres of fun-loving artists, musicians, and writers. In recognition for the island’s historical humor, we have fondly named a new house in our inventory, On Hemingway’s Rounds. Paying tongue-in-cheek homage to Papa’s established daily trail from home-to-bar-and-back-again, the owner of this elegantly renovated historic house placed a discrete sign, amongst a trumpet vine, that whispers ‘Hemingway Pissed Here.’ And you know what, we concur that he probably did. Here’s why …
The property is on Whitehead Street, in a short straight-shot path from writer Ernest Hemingway’s Key West home to the old Sloppy Joe’s Bar on Greene Street. From 1928 – 1938, Hemingway lived in the house with his 2nd wife Pauline, and maintained a predictable daily routine at 907 Whitehead Street. Starting at dawn, he awoke to diligently write at his old wooden desk that still sits in his now museum home. But it wasn’t all discipline for dear Papa. Everyday like clock-work, he left his house at 3:30 pm to stroll to the bar on Greene Street, meeting up with friends for a daily dose of bar-room commiserating, and gaining inspiration for penning his next masterpiece.
Now in those days, Whitehead Street was not all built-out, green spots and vacant lots dotted along the road. It’s fun to surmise that since this house, On Hemingway’s Rounds, is on a straight-shot path between Hemingway’s Key West home and the old Sloppy Joe’s Bar, it was probably still a vacant lot, a naturalist’s ‘pit-stop’ en-route.
All kidding aside, in 1938, Papa was making his move away from this scene to Havana, Cuba, nursing a slow painful split from wife Pauline with whom he had made his home in Key West. During that same year, the City of Key West records show that the house, we endearingly call On Hemingway’s Rounds, was originally built.
The home was recently re-designed for sophisticated tastes, artistic craftsmanship is recognizable throughout this home. Everything sparkles from the luxurious kitchen with granite counter tops and top-of-the-line appliances to the gorgeous hand-hewed wooden floors and open ceiling beams in the main living areas.
You may want to rent this house for your next visit to Key West. Check out the full story:
http://vacationhomesofkeywest.com/on-hemingways-rounds.html
