The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford is getting a financial boost to help in its preservation and restoration work, The Associated Press reports.
The Hartford Financial Services Group has awarded $65,000 to the organization that runs the historic home where Mark Twain lived for 17 years and wrote many of his best known works.
The grant will help pay to hire a historical preservation consultant to review the property, and part of the costs of organizing its annual fall fundraising gala.
It will also finance two “Hartford Free Visit Days,” in which city residents will be invited to visit the house and museum at no charge and help pay for educational programs at nearby public schools.
The gingerbread Gothic home was built in 1874 by the author and humorist. He sold it in 1903.
