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Mark Twain wrote, played billiards in 19-room Connecticut house.

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From: Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH)
Date: 20061204
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Byline: Bob Downing

HARTFORD, Conn. _ It's a dark, distinguished and distinctive house. But it's in the wrong place.

It should be in Hannibal, Mo., or Calaveras County, Calif., not a leafy neighborhood in Hartford.

But that's where you will find the 19-room Mark Twain House, the residence of novelist, humorist and social commentator Samuel L. Clemens, his wife and three daughters from 1874 to 1891.

It was where Clemens penned such American characters as Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.

The three-story, multihued structure is the centerpiece of the Mark Twain ...

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