Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
Acclaimed author Harriet Beecher Stowe purchased this painted brick cottage on Forest Street in 1873.This historic site includes the Visitor Center (1873 Carriage House), the Harriet Beecher Stowe House which is open for tours, and the Katharine Seymour Day House. Modest by the standards of the Nook Farm neighborhood, the Stowe house contains 17 rooms and halls. Harriet Beecher Stowe counted Mark Twain's family as neighbors, as they lived close by.