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Key West Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters MuseumvsThe Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum
Both Key West Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters Museum and The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum are recommended by professional reviewers writing for major publications. Overall, The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum scores significantly better than Key West Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters Museum. The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum ranks #1 in Key West with praise from 9 reviewers including Fodor's, Afar Magazine and Frommer's.
Key West Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters Museum
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938 Whitehead St, Key West, FL 33040
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Lonely Planet "It’s just as enjoyable to gaze up at the tower from the leafy street below." Full review
Where "This 1847 structure, inland on a Key West street just across from the Hemingway Home, affords visitors a bird’s-eye view of Key West from atop its 90-foot light tower (88 steps to the top)." Full review
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It was positioned here to avoid the fate of its predecessor on Whitehead Point, which toppled in a hurricane the previous year.
Fodor's "For the best view in town, climb the 88 steps to the top of this 1847 lighthouse." Full review
U.S. News & World Report11.0
"If you can fend off the claustrophobia and don't mind heights, the climb up the tiny and constricting 88 steps to the top of the Key West Lighthouse is worth it for the views, say recent visitors." Full review
Condé Nast Traveler "You'll have to climb 88 steps to reach the top, but once you do, you'll get rewarded with expansive views." Full review
Frommer's "One of the island’s more important buildings, guiding military, commercial, and pleasure vessels through shallow waters and treacherous reefs." Full review
Travel + Leisure "Browse the Key West Lighthouse and Keeper's Quarters to get a glimpse of maritime life in the 1800s, when it opened with a rarity: a female keeper"
The Ernest Hemingway Home and Museum
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Afar Magazine
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907 Whitehead St, Key West, FL 33040
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Concierge "The house itself was built by a marine architect and salvage wrecker in 1851. The rooms all contain antiques and memorabilia from Hemingway's world travels."
Fodor's "Amusing anecdotes spice up the guided tours of Ernest Hemingway's home, built in 1801 by the town's most successful wrecker." Full review
Lonely Planet "Key West’s biggest darling, Ernest Hemingway, lived in this gorgeous Spanish colonial house from 1931 to 1940." Full review
Travel + Leisure "It's a shame to come to Hemingway's tropical hideaway and not take the official tour, which start every 10 minutes." Full review
Afar Magazine "Hemingway wrote in the early mornings and poked around town in the afternoon - unless he was fishing." Full review
Michelin Guide 2 Stars
"The novelist Ernest Hemingway (1889-1961), a legendary Key West figure, wrote some of his finest works on the island." Full review
Where "Once the home of Key West’s most famous writer, Ernest Hemingway, the Hemingway Home and Museum ranks at the top of any must-do list and is Key West’s most popular attraction." Full review
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Be sure to look for the infamous six-toed cats!
Atlas Obscura "The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats. " Full review
U.S. News & World Report6.0
"Literary icon and journalist Ernest Hemingway is one of Key West's best-known and well-loved "freshwater Conchs" (a resident who was not born on the island)." Full review
Travel + Leisure "There is no better pilgrimage in the Keys than to the home of its most famous literary citizen...get the story behind the swimming pool, and walk the tiny catwalk to his writing studio."
Florida Keys Travel Guide
March 2, 2021
