Posted on 07/30/2010 7:33:17 AM PDT by Daffynition
In reading about the lives of history’s great men, one thing I’ve noticed is that many of them had a place they could go to be alone with their thoughts. Some of these men had a study where they would retreat to think, read, and write. Others had a garage or workshop where they would tinker and experiment. But what all these rooms had in common was their sheer manliness. They were man spaces, places a man could call his own.
Below we give you a look inside the man rooms of 14 famous men from history. Within these rooms they formulated ideas that would change the world, wrote books that remain classics, and revitalized the dynamic manliness that drove their success. While we all can’t have a Carnegie-esque study, perhaps you’ll find inspiration from these manly spaces to spruce up your own room or simply the push to find a place where you can get away from it all and in tune with your manliness.
The room where Papa wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and Death in the Afternoon. Ernest Hemingway lived in this house in Key West, Florida for more than 10 years. Needing a place where he could drink a glass of scotch, smoke a cigar, and write about men being men, Hemingway turned the old carriage house on the property into his personal writing studio. The main features in the room are the Cuban cigar-maker’s chair and his Royal typewriter. Throughout the room, Hemingway placed mementos he collected from his manly adventures in Africa and Cuba.
(Excerpt) Read more at artofmanliness.com ...
After Theodore Roosevelt’s Dakota cattle business failed, he came back East to New York and built a home in Oyster Bay, NY. He called his estate Sagamore Hill, and he lived there until he died (with a stint in the White House, of course). It was where Roosevelt would go to relax, romp in the woods, and revitalize his man spirit. The crowning manly jewel of the house was TR’s trophy room where he kept his collection of wild game he had hunted in Africa and throughout the American West. The room has a high ceiling and is filled with rich, dark Philippine camagon woodwork. A perfect place for the manliest president to read a book about adventure in the grasslands or to entertain guests and dignitaries.
Can I come over to play?
Nice! I realized that Charlton also has a shooting tunnel!
Nice! I realized that Charlton also has a shooting tunnel!
Shame they all got lost in that boating accident.
I can’t believe they left out George Washington’s study at Mount Vernon. I love that place with its bookcases and maps and globes and other stuff related to his interest in science and agriculture, and most of all the rocking chair that fans you when you rock.
That’s a neat site. Thanks for the post!
Am I right?
BYOA {BringYourOwnAmmo] ;D
Link to pix of George Washington’s study:
http://www.officemuseum.com/Washingtons_Mt_Vernon_Study_by_Hal_Conroy.jpg
*That* is a supreme luxury!
HAHAHA! You bankruptcy scofflaw you! ;)
Caveman room Madonna Inn
Cluttered ... but I love it! Is that a Maxim I see?
Which IRS office is that?
Thanx!
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