 It was in this house that Hemingway wrote some of his best work, including the short story classics "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber", his novel "To Have And Have Not", and the non-fiction work "Green Hills of Africa".The house stands at an elevation of above sea level but is still the second-highest site on the island.It was originally built in 1851 by Asa Tift, a marine architect and salvage wrecker, in a French Colonial estate style, out of limestone quarried from the site.