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1914 photograph of Stormfield, Mark Twain's home from June 1908 until his death Stormfield was the mansion built in Redding, Connecticut for author Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain, who lived there from 1908 until his death in 1910.
The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. The Clemens family had it designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. [3]
Designed by European-trained, New York-based architect Detlef Lienau, the 44,000 square feet (4,100 m 2) mansion features 26,402 square feet (2,452.8 m 2) of living space [3] and "is considered his most significant surviving work," according to the association. Both American and immigrant artisans worked to construct and decorate the house. [6]
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The interior of the house follows a fairly conventional center hall plan, with two parlors, dining room, kitchen, and pantry on the first floor, and bedrooms on the second. [3] Though Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family had previously lived in several other homes, Oakholm was the first constructed specifically for them.
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