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The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is a historic home and National Historic Landmark at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine, notable as a short-term home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Calvin Ellis Stowe and where Harriet wrote her 1852 novel Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The Harriet Beecher Stowe House, located at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine, was the rented home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family from 1850 to 1852. During Stowe’s time in Brunswick, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and sheltered John Andrew Jackson, a fugitive slave from South Carolina.
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The building now houses faculty offices as well as “Harriet’s Writing Room,” a public exhibit space that commemorates Stowe’s literary legacy. The home is a National Historic Landmark and a National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom site.
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The Harriet Beecher Stowe House, located at 63 Federal Street in Brunswick, Maine, was the rented home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family from 1850 to 1852. During Stowe’s time in Brunswick, she wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and sheltered John Andrew Jackson, a fugitive slave from South Carolina.
Bowdoin College is located in Brunswick, Maine, a town of approximately 20,000 people, first settled in 1628, on the banks of the Androscoggin River, a few miles from the shores of Casco Bay. The 207-acre main campus is organized around a central quadrangle. Maps are available here.
The Titcomb-Stowe House, 63 Federal Street, Brunswick, is the house in which Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote her famous novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Stowe and her family rented the home for the two years they lived in Brunswick, 1850-1852, while Calvin Stowe taught at Bowdoin College.
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center is a non-traditional museum where conversation inspires action. Connect the past to the present on the interactive tour. A visit to the Stowe Center includes: Guided visit and conversation in the 1871 Harriet Beecher Stowe House, a National Historic Landmark. Access to Stowe’s historic gardens.
