Editing Key West (section)

===Notable residences===
====Little White House====
{{Main|Harry S. Truman Little White House}}
[[File:Key West FL HD Little White House04.jpg|thumb|The [[Harry S. Truman Little White House|Little White House]]]]
Several U.S. presidents have visited Key West with the first being [[Ulysses S. Grant]] in 1880, followed by [[Grover Cleveland]] in 1889, and [[William Howard Taft]] in 1912.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.wlrn.org/post/power-magnet-key-wests-long-history-presidential-visits|title=Power Magnet: Key West's Long History Of Presidential Visits|last=Klingener|first=Nancy|date=April 18, 2018|access-date=December 2, 2018|language=en}}</ref> Taft was the first president to use the first officer's quarters that would later be known as the Little White House.<ref name=tlwh>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/history-little-white-house-museum.htm|title=Truman Little White House {{!}} Key West Museum History|access-date=December 2, 2018}}</ref> [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] visited the Florida Keys many times, beginning in 1917.<ref name=":0" />

[[Harry S. Truman]] visited Key West for a total of 175 days on 11 visits during his presidency and visited five times after he left office. His first visit was in 1946.<ref name=tlwh2>{{Cite web |url=https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/former-president-truman-visits.htm |title=Truman Little White House {{!}} Truman Key West visits |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203055525/https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/former-president-truman-visits.htm |archive-date=December 3, 2018 |work=Truman Little White House. |access-date=December 2, 2018}}</ref> The [[Harry S. Truman Little White House|Little White House]] and [[Truman Annex]] take their names from his frequent and well-documented visits. The residence is also known as the Winter White House as Truman stayed there mostly in the winter months, and used it for official business such as the [[Truman Doctrine]].<ref name=tlwh3>{{Cite web |url=https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/florida-white-house-media.htm |title=Truman Little White House {{!}} Media center |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927162913/https://www.trumanlittlewhitehouse.com/key-west/florida-white-house-media.htm |archive-date=September 27, 2018 |work=Truman Little White House |access-date=December 2, 2018}}</ref>

[[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] stayed at the Little White House following a heart attack in 1955.<ref name=":0" /> [[John F. Kennedy]] visited Key West in March 1961, and in November 1962, a month after the resolution of the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]. [[Jimmy Carter]] visited the Little White House twice with his family after he had left office, in 1996 and 2007.<ref name=tlwh2/>

====Ernest Hemingway house====
{{Main|Ernest Hemingway House}} [[File:Hemingway House Key West FL1.jpg|thumb|The [[Ernest Hemingway House]]]]
Legend has it that [[Ernest Hemingway]] wrote part of ''[[A Farewell to Arms]]'' while living above the showroom of a Key West [[Ford Motor Company|Ford]] [[Car dealership|dealership]] at 314 Simonton Street<ref>{{Google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=314+Simonton+Street,+Key+West,+Fl&ll=24.558365,-81.802783&spn=0.026074,0.05197&om=1 |title=314 Simonton Street, Key West, Fl |access-date=January 27, 2015}}</ref> while awaiting delivery of a [[Ford Model A (1927)|Ford Model A]] [[Roadster (automobile)|roadster]] purchased by the uncle of his wife [[Pauline Pfeiffer|Pauline]] in 1928.<ref>{{cite book|title=Hemingway's Key West |first=Stuart B. |last=McIver |publisher=Pineapple Press Inc |isbn=978-1-56164-241-0 |year=2002 |page=7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Y3VpdaWgKoC}}</ref>

Hardware store owner Charles Thompson introduced him to deep-sea fishing. Among the group who went fishing was Joe Russell (also known as [[Sloppy Joe's|Sloppy Joe]]). Some scholars believe Russell was the model for Freddy in ''[[To Have and Have Not]]''.<ref>{{cite web
|url=https://sloppyjoes.com/history/|title=Sloppy Joe's...Yesterday|date=June 27, 2012|access-date=2019-12-04}}</ref> The group had nicknames for each other, and Hemingway wound up with "Papa".

Pauline's rich uncle Gus Pfeiffer bought the [[Ernest Hemingway House|907 Whitehead Street house]]<ref>{{Google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=907+Whitehead+Street,+Key+West,+Fl&ll=24.551105,-81.800466&spn=0.026076,0.05197&om=1 |title=907 Whitehead Street, Key West, Fl |access-date=January 27, 2015}}</ref> in 1931 as a wedding present. The Hemingways installed a swimming pool for $20,000 in 1937–38 (equivalent to about ${{Formatprice|{{Inflation|US-GDP|20000|1938|{{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}). The unexpectedly high cost prompted Hemingway to put a [[penny]] in the wet cement of the patio, saying, "Here, take the last penny I've got!" The penny is at the north end of the pool.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.hemingwayhome.com/his-life |title=Hemingway – The Legend |work=hemingwayhome.com |access-date=December 2, 2018}}</ref>

During his stay he wrote or worked on ''[[Death in the Afternoon]]'', ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'', ''[[The Snows of Kilimanjaro (story)|The Snows of Kilimanjaro]]'', and ''[[The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber]]''. He used Depression-era Key West as one of the locations in ''[[To Have and Have Not]]''—his only novel with scenes that occur in the United States.

[[File:Polydactylcat.jpg|thumb|A [[polydactyl cat]] with seven toes at Hemingway's house]]
The six- or seven-toed [[Polydactyl cat|polydactyl]] cats descended from Hemingway's original pet "Snowball" still live on the grounds and are cared for at the Hemingway House, despite complaints by the [[U.S. Department of Agriculture]] that they are not kept free from visitor contact. The Key West City Commission has exempted the house from a law prohibiting more than four domestic animals per household.

Pauline and Hemingway divorced in 1939; Hemingway only occasionally visited when returning from Havana until his suicide in 1961.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

====Tennessee Williams house====
[[Tennessee Williams]] first became a regular visitor to Key West in 1941 and is said to have written the first draft of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire (play)|A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' while staying in 1947 at the La Concha Hotel. He bought a permanent house in 1949 and listed Key West as his primary residence until his death in 1983. In contrast to Hemingway's grand house in Old Town, the Williams home at 1431 Duncan Street<ref>{{google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1431+Duncan+Street,+Key+West,+Fl&ll=24.555906,-81.786261&spn=0.026075,0.05197&om=1 |title=1431 Duncan Street, Key West, Fl |access-date=January 27, 2015}}</ref> in the "unfashionable" New Town neighborhood is a very modest bungalow. The house is privately owned and not open to the public. The Academy Award-winning film version of his play ''[[The Rose Tattoo]]'' was shot on the island in 1956. The Tennessee Williams Theatre is located on the campus of Florida Keys Community College on Stock Island.<ref>{{Google maps|url=https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=5901+College+Road,+Key+West,+Fl&ll=24.577217,-81.746521&spn=0.02607,0.05197&om=1 |title=5901 College Road, Key West, Fl |access-date=January 27, 2015}}</ref>

Though Hemingway and Williams lived in Key West at the same time, they reportedly met only once—at Hemingway's home in Cuba, [[Finca Vigía]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jun/09/cuba.humanities|title=Our men in Havana|last=Dundy|first=Elaine|date=2001-06-09|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-06-24|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref>