So far the only place we have visited in Hartford is Mark Twain's house. The house certainly is a thing of beauty but very different to what we'd consider building today.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (better known as Mark Twain) moved to Hartford in 1871 to be closer to his publisher. It's in this house that some of Mark's masterpieces were penned (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Fin to name a few). The style of the house is Victorian gothic and it certainly lives up to the images that gothic conjure. The inside of the house is very dark but the interior decorations was designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

The house has seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms and on the top floor was the billiards room were he would entertain male guests with billiards, cigars and liquor. The room would also double as his writing room. It must have reeked of cigar smoke back then because it's reported that Mark would smoke upwards of 20 cigars per day. I suppose if you're going to do something you might as well do it well.

Unfortunately we were not allowed to take photos of the interior of the house so if you want to see what it's like, you'll have to drop by for a visit. That said it's well worth a look. The pictures below are of the outside of the house and carriage house.