Mark Twain's Home at Hartford.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 685, 4 November 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

Mark Twain's Home at Hartford.

Quite recently I rode out on Earmingfcon Avenue, to view the domicil of that latter-day eccentric, Mark Twain, and was much edified by half an hour's inspection of the premises. A. queer, rambling edifice of variegated brick, possessing innumerable steep gables of different sizes, and two octagnal wings sprawl on the top of an irregular elevation, facing, of course, to the rear. Fronting the street is the kitchen, with a row of clothes lines before it, upon which, every Monday morning, curious pedestrians may inspect the family linen. Opposite, commanding a fine view of the stable, and up a steep declining, where Hog Kiver, the muddiest stream in Connecticut, trickles at the bottom, is the parlor. Before it, upon a wide piazza, are scattered numbers of easy chairs, of rattan, table of the same material, and here also swings a hammock. It is the' pride of the fortanato proprietor that no two rooms in the building resemble each other in the slightest respects and, indeed, a glauc-) at the odd nook; and corners, the projecting balconies' diminutive windows, and i incomprehensible recesses', would suggest an architectual ponundrum of extreme intricacy.', dVtb!e'left/o'n entering the ground's, are several greeti-houses; iti the rear, a spacious barn, ahd to the left of 'that a servant's' h^u'se*; in which many a family might live comfortably, all of the buildings are 1 a dull red, variegated with bright crimson, and may be described as edifices of" aborigiual extraction in tlioir war paint.