Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, lived in this 1871 cottage in Hartford's Nook Farm neighborhood from 1873 until her death in 1896.
Mark Twain lived next door. Stowe painted, gardened, and kept writing here in her later years.
The house is now a museum and a center for discussion of the social issues she wrote about.
Timeline
- 1873Stowe moves in.
- 1896Stowe dies at the house.
- 1968Opens as a museum.
The neighborhood mattered as much as the house — two of America's great writers shared a lawn.
