| Mark Twain House |
| Financial problems forced Sam and Livy Clemens to move the family to Europe in 1891. Susy's death in 1896 would make it too hard for Livy to return to their Hartford home and they sold the property in 1903. Twain's remarkable 19–room Victorian mansion would change owners several times after the turn of the century. The Bissell family lived in the home until 1917, then rented it to the Kingswood School. In 1921, private developers purchased the property and, when the Kingswood School moved to new quarters in 1922, the developers converted the home into several apartments, and built apartment buildings on a portion of the land owned by the Clemens family. In 1926, another group of developers bought the property, and began to consider the demolition of the historic Twain house and Carriage House in order to build construct additional apartment buildings on the Farmington Avenue site. |
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