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Line 25: The '''Mark Twain House and Museum''' was the home of [[Mark Twain]] (a.k.a. Samuel Langhorne Clemens) from 1874 to 1891 in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], [[USA]]. Before 1874, Twain had lived in [[Hannibal, Missouri]]. The architectural style of the 19-room house is [[Victorian Gothic]]. The house is also notable for the major works written during his residency, including ''[[The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today\|The Gilded Age]]'', ''[[The Adventures of Tom Sawyer]]'', ''[[The Prince and the Pauper]]'', ''[[Life on the Mississippi]]'', ''[[Adventures of Huckleberry Finn\|Huckleberry Finn]]'', ''[[A Tramp Abroad]]'', and ''[[A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court]]''. Poor financial investments caused the Twain family to move to Europe in 1891.<ref name=Haas31/> When they returned to Connecticut in 1900 he lived in a house built for him in [[Redding, Connecticut]], named Stormfield, where he died on April 21, 1910. His home in Hartford functioned as a school, an apartment building, as well as a library. In 1962 the building was declared a [[National Historic Landmark]].<ref name="nhlsum">{{cite web\|url=http://tps.cr.nps.gov/nhl/detail.cfm?ResourceId=671&ResourceType=Building \|title=Mark Twain House \|accessdate=2007-10-05\|work=National Historic Landmark summary listing\|publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name="nrhpinv2">{{Cite document\|url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/66000884.pdf\|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Mark Twain House\|date=November 6, 1974 \|author=Blanche Higgins Schroer and J. Walter Coleman \|publisher=National Park Service\|postscript=<!--None-->}}. {{PDFlink\|[http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/66000884.pdf ''Accompanying 5 photos, exterior and interior, from c.1965, 1968, 1974 and pre-1970'']\|2.14 MB}}</ref> Since 1974 it has had a multi-million dollar renovation and an expansion dedicated to showcasing his life and work. The house is facing financial troubles stemming in part from an overestimation of the number of visitors it would receive yearly.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/nyregion/connecticut/21twainct.html Writers Unite To Keep Twain House Afloat]. ''The New York Times'', September 19, 2008]</ref>

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