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Ernest Hemingway’s boyhood home for sale

The boyhood home of author Ernest Hemingway, 600 N. Kenilworth Avenue in Oak Park, shown in 2000. (James Mayo, Chicago Tribune)

The boyhood home of author Ernest Hemingway, 600 N. Kenilworth Avenue in Oak Park, shown in 2000. (James Mayo, Chicago Tribune)

The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park has placed the legendary author’s boyhood home in Oak Park up for sale for $525,000.

Plans by the foundation to convert the house from its current use as a three-unit apartment house to a learning center fell through when Dominican University declined to continue partnering with the foundation, said listing agent Steve Scheuring of Baird & Warner.

Read more at the Chicago Tribune.


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