Ernest Hemingway Cottage

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1968.

From the record

“The Ernest Hemingway Cottage, also known as Windemere, was the boyhood summer home of author Ernest Hemingway, on Walloon Lake in Michigan, United States. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1968.”
Wikipedia article Ernest Hemingway Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 49 National Register listings published here for Emmet County · listed in 1968 · category: Building · built in 1900, by Grace Hall Hemingway · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hemingway, Ernest, Cottage - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Between N shore of Walloon Lake and Lake Grove Rd., Walloon Lake, 49770
When was it listed? November 1968
Category. building
Township. Resort township
When was it built? 1900
Architect. Grace Hall Hemingway
National Register reference number. 68000026 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Ernest Hemingway Cottage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
6 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BEAR CREEK RESORT FD 0000217 - 2019
4 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 1808040 - 2018
13 August 2001	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
4 July 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
14 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	BOYNE CITY FD 0077446 - 2018
28 June 2018	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	MELROSE TOWNSHIP FD 1806240 - 2018
5 May 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 May 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Michigan Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Emmet County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ernest Hemingway Cottage: 2 prospects, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Boyne City Prtlnd Cmnt Co Shale Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Shale Prospect	Clay	Prospect
Unnamed Shale Prospect	Clay	Prospect

Every working recorded in Emmet County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Frank Lesher House	6.2 miles	1986
I. N. Debenham House	6.3 miles	1986
Sarah Pennington House	6.3 miles	1986
Bert and John Hobbins House	6.4 miles	1986
Shafer's Grocery and Residence	6.4 miles	1986
A. Malin House	6.4 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 68000026 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Emmet County	All 49 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.