The boyhood home of novelist Ernest Hemingway is seen Wednesday, June 13, 2012 in Oak Park, Ill. On Tuesday, June 12, an Oak Park couple closed on a $525,000 deal for the home in the Chicago suburb. The new owners plan to make their home available to visits by Hemingway enthusiasts. Hemingway lived in the home until he graduated from high school and is believed to have written some of his earliest works in his third-floor bedroom. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
The boyhood home of novelist Ernest Hemingway is seen Wednesday, June 13, 2012 in Oak Park, Ill. On Tuesday, June 12, an Oak Park couple closed on a $525,000 deal for the home in the Chicago suburb. The new owners plan to make their home available to visits by Hemingway enthusiasts. Hemingway lived in the home until he graduated from high school and is believed to have written some of his earliest works in his third-floor bedroom. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
OAK PARK, Ill. (AP) ? A couple that purchased novelist Ernest Hemingway's boyhood home in suburban Chicago plans to live in and restore the historic house.
Kurt and Mary Jane Neumann closed on a $525,000 deal for the home in Oak Park on Tuesday.
John Berry of the Ernest Hemingway Foundation says the foundation bought the home in 2001 in hopes of turning it into a cultural center but couldn't make the finances work.
Kurt Neumann says his family plans to make their home available to visits by Hemingway enthusiasts. But he says they'll need to balance that with the fact that it will be their family home.
Hemingway lived in the home until he graduated from high school and is believed to have written some of his earliest works in a third-floor bedroom.
Associated Pressst nicholas mindy mccready mindy mccready cliff harris cliff harris josh turner barnaby
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