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Hemingway House, in

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, was listed on the

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in 2015. The National Register does not disclose its location but rather lists it as "Address restricted." Includes 22 photos from 2013. The property is the last undeveloped property of its size within the city limits of Ketchum. The house was built in 1953 for Henry J. "Bob" Topping Jr. It is a two-story, home in Ketchum, west of the

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Similar to the Sun Valley Lodge a few miles away, its exterior walls are concrete, poured into rough-sawn forms and then acid-stained to simulate wood. It was sold to Hemingway in 1959 for its asking price of $50,000, and the Hemingways occupied it in November 1959. On the morning of Sunday, July 2, 1961, Hemingway died in the home of a self-inflicted head wound from a shotgun. After a brief funeral four days later, he was buried at the city cemetery.

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acquired ownership in 1986.; in May 2017, ownership was transferred to the

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, a privately funded public library.

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Palin's Travels
– Hemingway Adventure Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho National Register of Historic Places in Blaine County, Idaho Houses completed in 1953 Homes of American writers {{Idaho-NRHP-stub

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