Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
77 Forest St
HartfordCT06105
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- 12:00pm-5:30pm
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- Closed
- Tuesday
- 9:30am-4:30pm
- Wednesday
- 9:30am-4:30pm
- Thursday
- 9:30am-4:30pm
- Friday
- 9:30am-4:30pm
- Saturday
- 9:30am-5:30pm
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Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–96) spent her final years at this 1871 Victorian Gothic cottage, now a popular stop on the Connecticut Freedom Trail. The center was built around the cottage, created as a tribute to the author of the antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe's personal writing table and effects are inside.
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Introductory page for the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, a historic house museum in Hartford, CT154520ATTR:MUSEUM SHOPMUSEUMS
Harriet Beecher Stowe was the best-selling author of the anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." A 21st-century museum and program center, the Stowe Center offers interactive and engaging tours and programs designed to inspire action on social justice issues. Specialized tour experiences and discussion-based contemporary issue programs regularly offered.
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is dedicated to the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and offers tours for history buffs and even specially designed ones for children. This is the home in which Stowe lived from 1873 until her death in 1893. The house includes authentic, restored furniture pieces as well as souvenirs from her journeys around the world. A library, located on the grounds of the nearby...
