Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum

The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum is a house and a barn on West Cherry Street in Piggott. W. D. "Buck" Templeton built both in 1910, and Paul Pfeiffer bought them in 1913 and moved his family from St. Louis. Their daughter Pauline was working for Vogue in Paris when she married Ernest Hemingway there on May 10, 1927, after his divorce from his first wife. In the spring of 1928 the couple came to Piggott so he could meet her parents and wait for the birth of their first child. He claimed the small barn as a place to write and worked on A Farewell to Arms. When the summer heat proved too much, he went west.

He came back for winter holidays. In 1932 he brought his wife and three sons, and his short story "A Day's Wait" came out of that visit. Pauline's sister Virginia had remodeled the barn loft into a studio, and a fire there that winter destroyed many of his belongings; the scorch is still visible on an outside wall. Most of the furnishings, many of them Stickley, were the Pfeiffers' own. The museum also looks at the 1930s in northeast Arkansas, from drainage districts and roads to farming.

The Janes family owned the property from 1950 until Arkansas State University bought it in 1997, and the museum opened on July 4, 1999. Both buildings joined the National Register in 1982. Tours begin at the Museum Store, west of the barn studio.