Ernest Hemingway Cottage

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. In 1900, the couple spent $400 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. Hemingway returned to the cottage only once more in his life, in the early 1950s. ==Description==

The Ernest Hemingway Cottage is a single-story frame structure with a gabled roof and white clapboard siding measuring 20 feet by 40 feet. 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. 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. ==In literature==

Hemingway used the northern Michigan setting in a number of his works, ==Images==

File:Windemere-Lakeside2.jpg File:Windemere-Lakeside3.jpg File:Windemere-Cottage.jpg File:Windemere-Backside.jpg File:Windemere Plaque.jpg File:Ernest Hemingway Cottage EH1.jpg|Windemere cottage (c. 1920) File:Ernest Hemingway Cottage EH2.jpg|Windemere cottage (c. 1920) File:Ernest Hemingway Cottage EH3.jpg|Windmere cottage and Walloon Lake, Michigan. (c. 1920) File:Ernest Hemingway Cottage Walloon Lake MI2.jpg|Cottage, looking north (1974) File:Ernest Hemingway Cottage Walloon Lake MI3.jpg|West end of the cottage, looking north (1974) File:Ernest Hemingway Cottage Walloon Lake MI4.jpg|East end of the cottage (1974) File:Ernest Hemmingway Cottage Walloon Lake MI.jpg|View of the annex, looking west (1974) ==See also==