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14 Famous Man Rooms
The Art of Manliness ^ | July 27 2010 | Brett & Kate McKay

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.

Ernest Hemingway’s Writing Studio

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.

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Theodore Roosevelt’s Trophy Room

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.

1 posted on 07/30/2010 7:33:18 AM PDT by Daffynition
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Man cave of a *not-so-famous* guy.


2 posted on 07/30/2010 7:34:29 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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To: Daffynition; tx_eggman

Can I come over to play?


3 posted on 07/30/2010 7:36:07 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
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To: Daffynition

Nice! I realized that Charlton also has a shooting tunnel!


4 posted on 07/30/2010 7:36:58 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Daffynition

Nice! I realized that Charlton also has a shooting tunnel!


5 posted on 07/30/2010 7:37:08 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Daffynition

Shame they all got lost in that boating accident.


6 posted on 07/30/2010 7:38:47 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Daffynition

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.


7 posted on 07/30/2010 7:38:51 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Daffynition

That’s a neat site. Thanks for the post!


8 posted on 07/30/2010 7:39:29 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (What Would Jim Thompson Do?)
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To: Daffynition
I'm guessing this is a picture of Pelosi's new office.

Am I right?

9 posted on 07/30/2010 7:40:35 AM PDT by A Cyrenian
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To: SpinnerWebb

BYOA {BringYourOwnAmmo] ;D


10 posted on 07/30/2010 7:42:08 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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Link to pix of George Washington’s study:

http://www.officemuseum.com/Washingtons_Mt_Vernon_Study_by_Hal_Conroy.jpg


11 posted on 07/30/2010 7:42:31 AM PDT by La Lydia
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To: caver

*That* is a supreme luxury!


12 posted on 07/30/2010 7:44:14 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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To: agere_contra

HAHAHA! You bankruptcy scofflaw you! ;)


13 posted on 07/30/2010 7:46:03 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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To: Daffynition
It was 15 until the Oval Office was removed as a manly room last year.
14 posted on 07/30/2010 7:49:11 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Gun control was originally to protect Klansmen from their victims. The basic reason hasn't changed.)
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To: Daffynition

Caveman room Madonna Inn

15 posted on 07/30/2010 7:50:43 AM PDT by woofie
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To: La Lydia

16 posted on 07/30/2010 7:52:35 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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To: Daffynition

Cluttered ... but I love it! Is that a Maxim I see?


17 posted on 07/30/2010 7:54:53 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Dem voters, believing they cannot be deceived, it is impossible to convince them when deceived.)
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To: A Cyrenian
You're not even close! I was thinkin' more like a torture chamber....but done in more mauve tones. ;)


18 posted on 07/30/2010 7:56:03 AM PDT by Daffynition (There is no other cheese.)
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Which IRS office is that?


19 posted on 07/30/2010 7:58:18 AM PDT by agere_contra
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To: Daffynition

Thanx!


20 posted on 07/30/2010 7:58:18 AM PDT by La Lydia
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