Mark Twain House

 I wrote yesterday about Ron Chernow's new biography about Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens. I passed through Hartford last week, so I detoured for a quick photograph of the Mark Twain House, designed in 1873 by New York architect Edward Tuckerman Potter.

Clemens and his family lived in Hartford from 1874 to 1891.  While living in Hartford, he wrote such works as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.

Clemens biographer Justin Kaplan called the house "part steamboat, part medieval fortress and part cuckoo clock."  Around the house Clemens had rambling porches built like riverboat decks.  

I bought Chernow's book yesterday.  It is 1,033 pages.  There go my hopes of reading anything else this summer.