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Stormfield was the mansion built in Redding, Connecticut for author Samuel Clemens, best known as Mark Twain, who lived there from 1908 until his death in 1910. He derived the property's name from the short story "Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven". The building was destroyed in a 1923 fire.
The story follows Captain Elias Stormfield on his decades long cosmic journey to Heaven; his accidental misplacement after racing a comet; his short-lived interest in singing and playing the harp (generated by his preconceptions of heaven); and the general obsession of souls with the celebrities of Heaven such as Adam, Moses, and Elijah, who acc...
Aug 30, 2013 · The iconic film of Mark Twain walking in front of Stormfield, his house in Redding Connecticut, where he would later die. TFG Film & Tape has performed a digital restoration to the 1909 Edison ...
Feb 14, 2013 · Why, Stormfield, a man like you, that had been active and stirring all his life, would go mad in six months in a heaven where he hadn’t anything to do. Heaven is the very last place to come to rest in,—and don’t you be afraid to bet on that!”
Designated CP. November 29, 1979. The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) and his family from 1874 to 1891. It was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style. [3]
The History of Stormfield. From notes left by Margaret Mooney, former librarian, and Harold Mueller, former board president, of the Mark Twain Library. 1906. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) was living in New York City in 1906, at 21, Fifth Avenue.
Apr 18, 2022 · The Tuscan-style villa modeled on the one where Samuel Clemens lived his final years, on the property where he died, is back on the market on Mark Twain Lane in Redding. The owners of the property — known as Stormfield — are asking $3.9 million. That’s $300,000 less than its listing price in the summer of 2021.
