Mark Twain House Mark Twain House 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. It was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. Clemens biographer Justin Kaplan has called it "part steamboat, part medieval fortress and part cuckoo clock." Clemens wrote many of his best-known works while living there, including "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer", "The Prince and the Pauper", "Life on the Mississippi", "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", "A Tramp Abroad", and "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court." Poor
Mark Twain in Nevada stories in the "Mercury" in 1864, and due to his encouragement Twain would later send his story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" to New York in 1865 where it would become a national success.) Despite Ward's early death in March 1867, "The Mark Twain Encyclopedia" states: "His style, manner, and mantle…[were] adopted by others, including especially Mark Twain. ...the attitudes and persona of Ward were influential on Twain's literary comedy in both general and specific ways." In January 1864, Twain began covering another legislative session in Carson City. Thanks in part to his familial political connections, Twain's political