Built 1884 Opened 1884 Added to NRHP 16 April 1971 | NRHP Reference # 71000909 Area 8,000 m² Architect Francis Hatch Kimball | |
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Location 77 Forest Street, Hartford, Connecticut Architectural style Queen Anne style architecture Similar Harriet Beecher Stowe Ho, Mark Twain House, The Bushnell Center for, Isham‑Terry House, XL Center | ||
The Katharine Seymour Day House is a historic house dating to 1884, at 77 Forest Street in the historic Nook Farm district of Hartford, Connecticut.
Overview
The house is a 2-1/2 story stone (a polychrome assortment of brownstone and limestone) structure, designed by Francis H. Kimball. It is a fine local example of Queen Anne Victorian architecture, with a busy exterior in terms of color and organization, with projecting gables, dormers and porches.
Kimball built the house for Franklin Chamberlin and completed the project in 1884. He is believed to have built the house as a rival to the adjacent Mark Twain House. Chamberlin had previously sold the adjacent land to Mark Twain on which his house was built. The house was later owned by Willie Olcott Burr, publisher of The Hartford Times newspaper. It was purchased by Harriet Beecher Stowe's grandniece Katharine Seymour Day in 1940.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 16, 1971. It is now owned by the non-profit owners of the (also adjacent) Harriet Beecher Stowe House. The Stowe House was also originally built for Chamberlin.