Pfeiffer House and Carriage House | |
 Ernest Hemingway wrote portions of his novelA Farewell to Arms at this home, now a visitor center of the Crowley's Ridge Parkway. | |
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| Location | Piggott, Arkansas |
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| Coordinates | 36°23′4.26″N90°12′0.49″W / 36.3845167°N 90.2001361°W /36.3845167; -90.2001361 |
| Built | 1927 |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 82002097[1] |
| Added to NRHP | June 10, 1982 |
TheHemingway-Pfeiffer House, also known as thePfeiffer House and Carriage House, is ahistoric house museum at 10th and Cherry Streets inPiggott, Arkansas. It is where novelistErnest Hemingway wrote portions of his 1929 novelA Farewell to Arms. Hemingway was married to Pauline Pfeiffer, the daughter of the owners of the house, Paul and Mary Pfeiffer.[2]
Pauline Pfeiffer, Hemingway's second wife, had grown up in the home. Her uncle Gustavus Pfeiffer was a benefactor of the couple, even financing an African safari trip that inspired Hemingway'sGreen Hills of Africa.[3]
Hemingway did his writing in a barn behind the home which he converted into a writing studio. The space is decorated with items that would have been found in the studio when Hemingway used it.
The house is now the home ofArkansas State University'sHemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center. The mission statement of the center is to "contribute to the regional, national and global understanding of the 1920s and 1930s eras by focusing on the internationally connected Pfeiffer family, of Piggott, Arkansas, and their son-in-law Ernest Hemingway." The center is also the visitor center for theCrowley's Ridge Parkway.[2]
The property also includes the Matilda and Karl Pfeiffer Education Center, a Tudor-style home where Pauline's brother and his wife lived before it was opened to the public in 2004.[3]
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