Connecticut

Mark Twain House & Museum, Hartford

The American High Gothic-styled Mark Twain House & Museum, built in 1874, lies on Farmington Avenue in Asylum Hill immediately west of Downtown Hartford in the namesake county of central north Connecticut.

Mark Twain, or Samuel Langhorne Clemens as his real name was, lived here for 17 years between 1874 and 1891 writing many of his best known works such as ‘The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,” “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” “The Prince and the Pauper” and “Life on the Mississippi” during that time.

Indiana

Guthrie Mansion, Tunnelton

The beautiful Italianate Guthrie Mansion, built in 1879, lies on Tunnelton Road on the east edge of the community of Tunnelton in southeast Lawrence County, southern Indiana.

It was raised by entepreuner Alfred Guthrie who made the most of the arrival of railway at Tunnelton and a fortune as he set up a general store that engaged the locals for miles around.

Nowadays, the mansion functions as a Bead & Breakfast (Guthrie Meadows BB).

Texas

Bremond Block Historic District, Austin

The Victorian beauty of John Bremond House, built in 1886, at 700 Guadalupe Street shapes the centrepiece of the Bremond Block Historic District, Downtown Austin (Texas).

The historic district is a Victorian patch that primarily takes in eleven historic houses, constructed between 1854 and 1910, lying within a square block bounded by West Seventh, West Eighth, Guadalupe and San Antonio Streets.

It further extends over several houses located on the west side of San Antonio Street and the south side of West Seventh Street.