{"id":2058,"date":"2020-07-21T02:32:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T02:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/?p=2058"},"modified":"2020-07-21T02:32:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T02:32:02","slug":"mark-twain-house-hartford-ct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/2020\/07\/21\/mark-twain-house-hartford-ct\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain House &#8211; Hartford, CT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2060\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7646A-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7646A-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7646A-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7646A-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7646A-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The residency was home from Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens\u00a0) and his family from 1874 to 1891.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2064\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7712-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7712-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7712-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7712-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7712-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The house was designed by\u00a0Edward Tuckerman Potter\u00a0and built in the\u00a0American High Gothic\u00a0style.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2063\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7668-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7668-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7668-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7668-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7668-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The family moved to Europe in 1891 due to poor financial investments.\u00a0 Their two daughters, Susy and Jean, stayed behind during this time, and Susy died at home on August 18, 1896 of\u00a0spinal meningitis. After this tragedy no one lived in the house again.\u00a0\u00a0They sold the house in 1903.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2061\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7655A-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7655A-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7655A-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7655A-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7655A-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After been sold the house was used as a school but in\u00a01929, it was rescued from possible demolition by the Mark Twain Memorial. By\u00a01962 it became a\u00a0National Historic Landmark.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2065\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7718-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7718-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7718-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7718-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7718-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2062\" src=\"http:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7662A-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7662A-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7662A-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7662A-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_7662A-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The residency was home from Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens\u00a0) and his family from 1874 to 1891.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2066,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058\/revisions\/2066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/franciscaclaret.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}