A literary house and America's first public art museum.
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM· 2h
The Mark Twain House & MuseumMuseums & HistoryAnchor
The eccentric Gilded-Age mansion where Twain wrote Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, beside Harriet Beecher Stowe's house.
351 Farmington Ave, Hartford, CT1:00 PM – 2:40 PM· 1h 40m
The Wadsworth AtheneumMuseums & HistoryWorth it
The oldest continuously operating public art museum in the country, opened in 1844 — Hudson River School landscapes, Colt firearms, and a Caravaggio.
600 Main St, Hartford, CT3:15 PM – 4:30 PM· 1h 15m
The Connecticut State CapitolState CapitolsAnchor
A wild marble-and-granite pile above Bushnell Park, gold-domed and covered in gables and statuary — one architecture critic called it the handsomest capitol in America and Mark Twain, who lived up the road, reportedly called it something less kind. Free tours, and the Genius of Connecticut stands in the atrium.
210 Capitol Ave, Hartford, CT