National Historic Landmark · house · Walloon Lake, Michigan

Hemingway, Ernest, Cottage

Historic house in Michigan, United States in Walloon Lake, Michigan. Built 1900 by Grace Hall Hemingway. Added to the National Register in 1968, and a National Historic Landmark.

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What it is

Wikipedia · Ernest Hemingway Cottage

The Ernest Hemingway Cottage, also known as Windemere, was the boyhood summer home of author Ernest Hemingway, on Walloon Lake in Michigan, United States. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeBuilding
AddressBetween N shore of Walloon Lake and Lake Grove Rd., Walloon Lake, MI
CountyEmmet County
ListedNov 24, 1968
Reference number68000026
Built1900
ArchitectGrace Hall Hemingway
Type of placehouse
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark
Contributing resources1 buildings

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

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AddressBetween N shore of Walloon Lake and Lake Grove Rd., Walloon Lake, MI
Coordinates45.28014, -84.99935 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitSleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore · 56 mi · on Park Atlas
Listing on the Register does not open the door. Unless a museum or park runs it, treat this as private property and see it from the sidewalk.

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Sources

Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 68000026. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.