The Harriet Beecher Stowe House

In 1873 Harriet Beecher Stowe purchased the painted brick "cottage" on Forest Street. Modest by the standards of the Nook Farm neighborhood, the house contains 17 rooms and halls. The gardens surrounding the house reflect Stowe's fondness for and knowledge of the plantings of the Victorian era. She resided here with her husband, Calvin Stowe, a retired professor and Biblical scholar, and their adult twin daughters, Eliza and Harriet. Stowe lived in the house until her death in 1896.

Photo 24, Nov 2004