Mark Twain's Grand House

You might think the author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn would settle down in Mississippi, but Samuel Clemens (alias Mark Twain) married into wealth and built a grand Stick Style mansion in a pastoral section of Hartford, Connecticut.

The architect was Edward Potter, famous for building churches. Many of the interior details were created by Louis Comfort Tiffany and his firm. So the folksy Mark Twain wrote his homespun tales in the midst of Gilded Age luxury.
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^{Photo: Turrets at the Mark Twain House © 2007 Jackie Craven}