14 Famous Man Rooms

The Art of Manliness ^ | July 27 2010 | Brett & Kate McKay

[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.

[IrishCatholic]

So THAT’s what's in the woodpile! I wondered where that expression came from.

[BunnySlippers]

I’m not able to post photos from the office ... otherwise I would post some Will Rogers excellent western style house in Malibu:

http://www.google.com/search?q=will+rogers+house&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=ie7&rlz=1I7IBMA_en

[TNoldman]

ping - man room

[stefanbatory]

That’s Burt Gummer’s place, right?

[G Larry]

Snopes says this collection didn’t belong to Chuck, but another NRA board member.
Disappointing if true....

[a fool in paradise]

At least I'm safe from monitoring...

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

Anderson Cooper's Man Cave

Thank you for posting this in lieu of a real picture of his 'Man Cave'.

[ASOC]

That is so trey clever.

Thanks for posting.

[Gaffer]

Lotta time on your hands, eh?

[Pan_Yan]

Too many thinkers and not enough doers.

Tour of the captain's cabin, USS Constitution

I think that's a bit more manly that Thoreau musing over the woods.

[Daffynition]

It certainly could be!

[Daffynition]

Most wonderful ... The Tiffany-style lamp is great!

Every man needs a Black cat!

[Blogatron]

George Washington's man-cave.

[Daffynition]

So right you are! ;)

[Daffynition]

Nice addition ...but ...if I may counter with WFB not long before he passed. Now, *This* is where some intellectual thinking took place.

[Daffynition]

Just WOW! Any link to that project? I'm thinkin' this could be that guy's woodpile...

[MHGinTN]

Actually, we put the cameras and mics in those light bulbs. But we’re from the government and only want to help ...

[Daffynition]

God Bless Sen. Phil Gramm!

[MHGinTN]

Actually, it’s the cat’s, but I notice the cat lets you get right at home there.

[goseminoles]

Your man room is a “ball room”. Mine is the “bathroom”.