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House where Mark Twain raised family, wrote books

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From: AP Worldstream
Date: 20020214
Author:STEPHEN SINGER, Associated Press Writer

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Dateline: HARTFORD, Connecticut Atop a hill not far from downtown Hartford, the house where Mark Twain raised his family and wrote his best-loved works stares down at passers- by with an appropriate haughtiness.

Just as Twain was no typical American, this late 19th-century gem from the Gilded Age is no ordinary house.

The red-brick Gothic mansion, with its seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms, carriage house and plant-filled conservatory, has received a new burst of attention with the recent broadcast of a two-part U.S. Public Broadcasting Service documentary by Ken Burns.

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