After failing to attract any bids when it was put up for auction by the Oak Park (Ill.) Public Library in April, an 1860s Victorian frame home where Ernest Hemingway briefly lived in 1906 was sold for $1 to a couple who promised to move and restore the house.
The library’s assistant director, James Madigan, told Reuters that Scot and Stacy Sterenberg agreed May 26 to buy the house and pay the estimated $300,000 required to move the structure, known as the “Ernest Hemingway Interim House,” to a vacant lot less than a mile away and renovate it.
Posted May 31, 1999.