Seeing is Revealing: Nook Farm Then and Now

FAIN: ZPP-283819-22

Harriet Beecher Stowe Center (Hartford, CT 06105-3243)
Amy Hufnagel (Project Director: May 2021 to August 2024)

A new walking tour of Nook Farm, a historic area in Hartford, Connecticut.

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is developing a new collaborative walking tour titled, Seeing is Revealing: Nook Farm Then and Now, between the Stowe Center and its neighbor, the Mark Twain House & Museum. The main goals for this tour are to introduce visitors to nineteenth-century Nook Farm in Hartford, CT, the park-like historic campus for the homes of Twain and Stowe, and its history as a type of planned residential development that sparked suburbanization and residential segregation in Hartford. The Stowe Center welcomes this opportunity to present its historic grounds with the shared authority of the Twain experts, and to invite a variety of voices from the community to discuss the history of urbanization of the city and how it affected its citizens of all echelons, as well as how the influence of neighborhoods like Nook Farm started a domino effect that implicated other areas and demographics over time.