COX NEWSPAPERS, June 2, 2005
By BOB DART
WASHINGTON – In a victory for prose over politics, preservationists announced Thursday that the Bush
administration has eased the trade embargo against Cuba enough to allow at least the first steps toward
saving Ernest Hemingway’s crumbling home on a hilltop near Havana.
The National Trust for Historic Preservation put “Finca Vigia”—the Cuban home where Hemingway lived
from 1939 to 1960 and where he wrote “The Old Man and the Sea” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls”—on
its 2005 list of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places.
In the nearly two decades that the list has been issued, this marks the first time a spot outside the United
States has been included, said Richard Moe, president of the National Trust.