Not many people know this, but this historic house in Oak Park is what Ernest Hemingway called home for the first six years of his life.

Ernest Hemingway Childhood Home: the House of a Future Nobel Prize Winner

Hemingway’s maternal grandfather, Ernest Hall, built the home in 1890, choosing architect Wesley Arnold to design it. To this day, the Earnest Hemingway Childhood Home maintains many of its original features, which allow visitors to easily imagine what the house must have felt like for little Ernest Hemingway.