Piggott in Clay County, Arkansas — The American South (West South Central)
Hemingway Barn-Studio
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, April 12, 2019
1. Hemingway Barn-Studio Marker
Topics and series. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Arts, Letters, Music. In addition, it is included in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) series list. A significant historical year for this entry is 1982.
Location. 36° 23.136′ N, 90° 12.041′ W. Marker is in Piggott, Arkansas, in Clay County. It can be reached from Heritage Park Road east of North 11th Avenue, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 1084 Heritage Park Rd, Piggott AR 72454, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Arkansas’ Crowleys Ridge and in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. It is also in the American South and specifically in the Upper South. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture, the Louisiana Purchase, one of the Confederate States of America, and the Antebellum South.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 7 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Pfeiffer-Janes House (within shouting distance of this marker); First Appointed Officals of Clayton County - Later Clay County, Ar. (approx. half a mile away); Clay County Veterans Memorial (approx. half a mile away); Chalk Bluff in the Civil War (approx. 6.7 miles away); Chalk Bluff (approx. 6.7 miles away); a different marker also named Chalk Bluff in the Civil War (approx. 6.8 miles away); Chalk Bluff Crossing and Town (approx. 6.8 miles away); a different marker also named Chalk Bluff in the Civil War (approx. 6.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Piggott.
Regarding Hemingway Barn-Studio.
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The Pfeiffer House and carriage house in Piggott represents a significant link between Arkansas and the famous American novelist and Nobel Prize for Literature winner, Ernest Hemingway. From 1927 to 1940 Hemingway was married to Pauline Pfeiffer of Piggott and frequently visited in this house, the home of Pauline's parents.
Virginia, Pauline's sister, had remodeled the upper level of the carriage house into a studio and Ernest, finding it a quiet place conducive to creativity, often slept and wrote there during visits to Piggott. It was in the carriage house in the winter of 1928 that he wrote much of his acclaimed second novel A Farewell to Arms
Also see . . .
1. Pfeiffer House and Carriage House (PDF). National Register nomination for the property, which was listed in 1982. (Prepared by Ethel Goodstein and Jean Sizemore of the Arkansas Historic Preservation Program; via National Archives) (Submitted on August 27, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.)
2. Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center. Homepage for the facility, which includes the Pfieffer family home and the barn studio where Hemingway wrote. The site also focuses on the 1930s in the areas of literature,
Photographed by Duane and Tracy Marsteller, July 21, 2024
2. Hemingway Barn-Studio Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on August 27, 2024. It was originally submitted on August 27, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee. This page has been viewed 167 times since then and 23 times this year. Photos: 1, 2. submitted on August 27, 2024, by Duane and Tracy Marsteller of Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
