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Article: The Hemingway birthplace: its restoration and interpretation.(American writer Ernest Hemingway)
- Article from:
- The Hemingway Review
- Article date:
- March 22, 1999
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1999 Ernest Hemingway Foundation. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park(1)
SINCE THE FIRST historic house museum in the United States opened to the public in 1850,(2) Americans have used historic buildings as tools for teaching and learning about the past. The pace at which historic places have opened to the public has quickened over time. According to a survey conducted by The National Trust for Historic Preservation, of the 5,000 historic site museums, in the U.S., fifty-nine percent have opened since 1960, an average of one every three-and-a-half days. In Hemingway's hometown, Oak Park, Illinois, there are currently four historic site museums.(3) This is the story of the most recently ...