Twain House In Hartford To Get Major Federal Funds

HARTFORD, CT — A prominent local landmark and former home of a national literary icon is getting major federal funding to ensure its long-term future.

The Mark Twain House & Museum will receive $487,000 in federal funds to upgrade and replace the site's aging heating/air conditioning system.

Such a project will also protect the museum's original furniture, its documents, and all of the museum's artifacts.

Located at 351 Farmington Ave., the museum preserves and celebrates Samuel Clemens’ Hartford home, where the author and his family lived from 1874 to 1891.

Of course, Clemens is more widely known under his pen name — "Mark Twain," the author of such American classics as Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., was expected at the museum Wednesday morning for an official announcement of the funding.

"The federal funding will help protect the archives and original furniture at the house, ensuring generations to come can visit the place where Twain penned many of his most famous works," wrote Blumenthal's office.

For more information on the Mark Twain House & Museum, click on this link.

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