Mrs Haynes’s Boarding House
3733 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri 64111, United States
Hemingway stayed at a room in this former boarding house at 3733 Warwick Boulevard shortly after moving to Kansas City in 1917. Prior to moving here, he had stayed briefly with his Uncle Alfred Tyler Hemingway and his Aunt Arabell White Hemingway at 3629 Warwick Boulevard. Uncle Tyler had got the young Hemingway his start as a newspaper reporter at the Star. But Hemingway found him a vain, pompous, and humourless man and didn’t want to spend much time in his company.
The boarding house, owned by Miss Gertrude Haynes, was very disciplined and exclusive but also quite expensive for the young Hemingway, costing him $35 a month – more than half his first month’s probationary salary of $60 at the Kansas City Star. His colleagues at the newspaper thought he was being robbed. In early December, Hemingway moved again, this time to stay with his friend Carl Edgar at a house on Agnes Avenue.
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