The Hemingway House was built circa 1850 and was Ernest Hemingway’s home in 1931.

The house was constructed by prosperous businessman Asa F. Tift, a marine architect and salvage wrecker. Tift, a delegate to the Florida Secession Convention, fled to Georgia after the occupation of Key West by Union forces in 1861.

With his brother Nelson Tift of Albany, Georgia, Asa Tift designed and financed the construction of Confederate ironclads during the Civil War, including the CSS Mississippi at New Orleans and the CSS Atlanta at Savannah, Georgia.

The Hemingway house is open for tours and located at 907 Whitehead Street, Key West, FL

www.hemingwayhome.com

Information provided by the Florida Division of Historical Resources, a division of the Florida Department of State