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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 ]
Residents of Redding met Twain and Paine and Paine's daughter Louise at the West Redding train station on June 18, 1908, and accompanied them to the new house. [1] It was the first time that Twain had seen the house in person. [4] Dan Beard was a nearby Redding resident whose illustrations appeared in several Mark Twain books. He helped set off ...
The historic site is adjacent to Mark Twain State Park on a peninsula at the western end of man-made Mark Twain Lake. The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. [6] Samuel Clemens, later known by the pen name Mark Twain, was born in the two-room house on November 30, 1835. [7]
Mark Twain House & Museum. Hartford, Connecticut Samuel Clemens — aka Mark Twain — and his wife commissioned architect Edward Tuckerman Potter to design the eye-catching home they moved into ...
Currently, the Mark Twain House, the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, and the Katherine Day House are museums open to the public. [8] [9] [10] The John and Isabella Hooker House is now an apartment building, [11] as is the House at 36 Forest Street, built later in 1895. [12]
Mark Twain and his family lived in what is now called the Mark Twain House from 1874 to 1891, a period when he wrote three famous books (two novels and a memoir) that feature a much larger river, the Mississippi: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), Life on the Mississippi (1883), and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885).
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), [1] known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist.He was praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," [2] with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature."
The West End neighborhood, which runs from the Park River, just past the Mark Twain House to the West Hartford border, was mostly farmland until 1870. During the 1900s–1920s many two and three story homes were built, lending a residential, Victorian air to the neighborhood which persists to this day.