Oak Park Couple Buys Hemingway's Boyhood Home
Kurt and Mary Jane Neumann close on historic home, with plans for restoration.
Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home will stay under local ownership. Kurt and Mary Jane Neumann, Oak Park residents since 2006, closed on the home at 600 N. Kenilworth Ave. this week. They'll pay $525,000. Earlier: Hemingway's Boyhood Home For Sale “As a young man, I was influenced by Hemingway’s writing and sense of adventure. Like Hemingway, I grew up spending summers in northern Michigan and travelled extensively as a young adult,” said Kurt Neumann told the Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park. “I am thrilled with the idea of raising our sons in a home with such a sense of history.” The Hemingway's moved into the home in 1906, and it's where young Hemingway is believed to have authored some of his early works. He lived there until …
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