Brunswick, Maine
The Stowe House Inn
63 Federal St.
Brunswick, Maine 04011
(207) 725-5543
Offers full-service lodging year round.
This Federal style inn was built in 1807. Harriet Beecher Stowe lived here while writing Uncle Tom's Cabin. Historians believe that the Stowe House was a stop on the Underground Railroad. Today, the Stowe House is a full service inn, with rooms and period artifacts relating to Stowe and other authors such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Nathaniel Hawthorne who are said to have also frequented the inn.
Hartford, Connecticut
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
77 Forest Street
Hartford, CT 06105
(860) 525-9317
Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 9:30-4:30; Sunday noon-4:30; Closed on major holidays
Admission fee charged. Call for information.
Stowe lived here from 1863 until her death in 1896. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is open to the public and maintains a significant research library and museum shop.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Harriet Beecher Stowe House
2950 Gilbert Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio
513/632-5120
Hours: Tuesday through Thursday 10:00 - 4:00
Stowe lived in this house with her father and sister from 1832 to 1835. While her father taught at Lane Seminary, the sisters taught at Western Female Institute. While living in this house, Stowe co-authored with her sister, Geography for Children (1833). She also wrote "New England Sketch," an essay which won a writing contest sponsored by Western Monthly Magazine.
Mandarin, Florida
From 1868 to 1884, Stowe and her family spent their winters in Mandarin, Florida. Here she obligingly became a tourist attraction as steamboats filled with tourists regularly passed by her house. When steamboat captains blew the whistle, Stowe hurried out onto her porch, sat down at her writing table, and waved to excited tourists.
She was instrumental in the building of a school for the children of freed slaves in Mandarin. In 1936 the building became home for the Mandarin Community Club. In this area, a historical marker honors Stowe.
In 1873, Stowe published a collection of vignettes of day-to-day life in Mandarin. The book titled Palmetto Leaves made a resurgence and is a popular book for tourists.
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896)
Although she was a prolific writer, producing stories for adults and children, poems, biographies, and numerous magazine articles, Harriet Beecher Stowe is known for her portrayal of Southern slavery in the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).
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