Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Hartford

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852), an antislavery novel of enormous impact in the United States, had lifelong associations with Hartford. She permanently moved to the city in 1864 and resided on Forest Street from 1873 until her death in 1896. Her home is operated as a museum by the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, which maintains a significant research library with collections that focus on nineteenth-century literature and social history, with particular emphasis on race relations, women’s issues, architecture, and decorative arts. The Stowe House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and open to the public.

Harriet Beecher Stowe partly based Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the writings of Theodore Dwight Weld (above), one of the leaders of the abolitionist movement.