Harriet Beecher Stowe House
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Daughter of
The Reverend Lyman and Roxanna Foot Beecher
Born Litchfield Connecticut 14 June 1811
Married at Cincinnati Ohio 6 January 1836
To Calvin Ellis Stowe
Wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at Brunswick Maine in 1851
Resided in this house from 1873
Until her death 1 July 1896
"As Columbus sought an old continent and discovered
a new one so Harriet Beecher Stowe meant to write
an argument on an old theme and succeeded in
writing an immortal classic."
William Lyon Phelps
[ lower plaque ]
This tablet placed by
The Hartford Colony
National Society
New England Women
13 June 1935
Marker is on Forrest Street 0.1 miles south of Farmington Avenue, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
