Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a museum in Connecticut, at a modelled elevation of 22 m. Talcott Mountain stands 276 m to the west-northwest, 5.9 miles off. The nearest named place is Mark Twain House Museum, a museum less than a tenth of a mile away.
The story
The Stowe Center for Literary Activism is a history museum and National Historic Landmark at 73 Forest Street in Hartford, Connecticut that was once the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of the 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe lived in this house for the last 23 years of her life. It was her family's second home in Hartford. The 5,000 sq ft (460 m2) cottage-style house is located adjacent to the Mark Twain House and is open to the public. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and declared a National Historic Landmark in 2013.
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Wikidata Q5664050, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Mark Twain House Museum: 0.0 mi
- Connecticut Museum of Culture and History: 0.5 mi
- A. Everett Austin House: 1.0 mi
- Butler-McCook Homestead: 1.4 mi
- Old State House: 1.4 mi
- Mark Twain House: 0.1 mi
- Geographic Center of Hartford: 0.4 mi
- Keney Tower: 1.3 mi
- Steven Sauter Rock: 4.4 mi
- Constitution Oak: 4.5 mi
- George H. Day Playground: 0.5 mi
- Pope Park North: 0.6 mi
- Sigourney Square Park: 0.7 mi
- Asylum Avenue Green: 0.7 mi
- Gallaudet Square: 0.8 mi
- Huntington Community Garden: 0.5 mi
- Elizabeth Park Rose Garden: 1.1 mi
- Elizabeth Park Perennial Garden: 1.1 mi
- Robert A. Prill Annual Garden: 1.1 mi
- Trinity College Community Garden: 1.2 mi
- Connecticut State Veterans Memorial: 0.8 mi
- General Israel Putnam: 1.0 mi
- Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch: 1.1 mi
- Dr. Horace Wells: 1.2 mi
- Statue of Bishop Thomas C. Brownell: 1.4 mi
- Sedna: 1.1 mi
- Stone Field Sculpture: 1.3 mi
- Pulaski: 1.4 mi
- Thomas Hooker: 1.4 mi
- Stegosaurus: 1.4 mi
- Johnson Hill: 1.2 mi
- Rocky Hill: 1.2 mi
- Hamilton Hill: 1.7 mi
- Elmwood Hill: 3.3 mi
- Buena Vista Hill: 3.9 mi
- Vanderbilt Park: 1.3 mi
- Keney Park: 2.6 mi
- Bugbee School Woods: 2.7 mi
- Gully Green: 2.9 mi
- Mooney's Woods: 3.0 mi
- Mill Pond Falls: 5.2 mi
- Dividend Falls: 9.0 mi
- Center Springs Falls: 9.2 mi
- Cascades: 9.3 mi
- Intermittent Cascade: 10.6 mi
- South Wall: 5.1 mi
- Solar Panel: 5.1 mi
- Superstructure: 5.1 mi
- Garden Wall: 5.2 mi
- Hidden Wall and the Watch Tower: 5.2 mi
- Thompsonville Boat Launch: 16.7 mi
- Lake Beseck Beach: 17.4 mi
- Dossin Park Beach: 18.3 mi
- Babbs Beach: 18.4 mi
- Mattatuck Beach: 19.6 mi
- Jennifer Hodges Memorial Rest Area: 14.9 mi
- Southington Rest Area: 17.1 mi
- Wallingford Rest Area: 21.6 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Eastbound: 22.5 mi
- West Willington Rest Area Westbound: 22.5 mi
- Ever Flowing Spring: 18.9 mi
- Hermit spring: 19.4 mi
- Big Spring: 20.2 mi
- Cannavo Spring: 21.9 mi
- Gay City State Park: 13.7 mi
- Johnsonville Village: 22.6 mi
- Rivers Edge Picnic Grove: 19.5 mi
- Picnic Grove: 19.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.3 miles of Harriet Beecher Stowe House. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Talcott Mountain | WNW 302° | 276 m | 5.9 mi |
| Taine Mountain | W 269° | 268 m | 11.1 mi |
| Onion Mountain | NW 305° | 253 m | 11.3 mi |
| Ely Mound | WNW 288° | 246 m | 5.5 mi |
| Mount Horr | WNW 294° | 238 m | 11.0 mi |
| Lookout Mountain | E 94° | 237 m | 11.1 mi |
| Birch Mountain | E 96° | 233 m | 11.3 mi |
| Rattlesnake Mountain | SW 236° | 229 m | 8.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:55 | 18:26 | 19:03 |
| June solstice | 05:17 | 19:48 | 20:30 |
| September equinox | 06:39 | 18:13 | 18:50 |
| December solstice | 07:16 | 15:39 | 16:24 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 39 | 50 | 61 | 70 | 75 | 74 | 66 | 54 | 43 | 34 |
| Precip in | 2.9 | 2.6 | 3.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Hartford Brainard FLD, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
National Register of Historic Places, reference 70000710OpenStreetMapWikipediaWikidataOpenStreetMap element way/194716938
Day trips start here
- East Windsor · 13 mi
- Tolland · 19 mi
- Longmeadow · 20 mi
- Somers · 20 mi
- Connecticut River Valley · 23 mi
- Storrs · 23 mi
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