Wendy G.
9/14/2025
This was a WONDERFUL historic tour. We purchased our tickets in advance, but I got the sense that tours could sell out if not purchased in advance. We were also told that they close early if they...
Ernest Hemingway Birth Home
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339 N Oak Park Ave
Oak Park, IL 60302
Ernest Hemingway's Birthplace Museum is nestled just west of downtown Chicago in Oak Park, Illinois. This is the ideal place to begin exploring the roots of the author's life and work. It is here that Ernest Hemingway was born in a second floor bedroom on July 21, 1899. This Queen Anne home was built in 1890 by his maternal grandparents and was the first home in Oak Park to have electricity. The famed Pulitzer Prize winning author spent the first six years of his life at what is now 339 N. Oak Park Ave. The restoration, which began in 1992, authentically returned the house to its 1890s’ Victorian heritage; ensuring that your experience of the furnishings and stories told reflect the young man who lived there.
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Nancy K.
12/16/2024
The Ernest Hemingway Birth Home is in a beautiful area within the Chicago suburb of Oak Park. We visited here recently and took a very interesting tour. On the tour we learned quite a bit about...
Hunter S.
8/18/2023
Where Hemingway was born and spent his early formative years. The home deteriorated through the years, so there are only a few pieces originally from the home when Hemingway lived there...
Brandon B.
3/7/2020
I have been in Chicago 17 years and I had not been here! Since I was in the area for my annual tax meeting I decided to stop by, it was a lovely day. I joined the already started tour with one...
Jessica S.
4/17/2018
This is a very short tour and not really worth the price, but you could get into the Hemingway museum a few blocks down with your admission so that's cool. I learned a lot during the time I was...
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