Mark Twain’s final home in Connecticut slashes ask by $300K to $3.9M

Right here’s your likelihood to be a Connecticut yankee in Mark Twain’s courtroom. The property the place the famed “Huckleberry Finn” author spent his closing years now comes at a reduction.

Within the Fairfield County city of Redding, a virtually 29-acre unfold that Twain as soon as referred to as his personal has reduce its asking worth by $300,000, The Publish has confirmed. Listed in July 2021, the property — often called “Stormfield” and named after his closing revealed story, “Captain Stormfield’s Go to to Heaven” — first hit the market asking $4.2 million.

Now out there for $3.9 million, a brand new purchaser can get a 6,300-square-foot primary home with 4 to 5 bedrooms, three fireplaces and a sublime formal front room — in addition to some actual bragging rights.

Twain, who was born Samuel Clemens, traveled extensively in Italy — and constructed his construction within the model of a Tuscan villa. He lived there from 1908 till his dying in 1910, however what stands there at this time — at 30 Mark Twain Lane — isn’t the complete authentic.

A hearth burned down Twain’s residence in 1923, a lot of years after he died. Nonetheless, builders constructed a brand new residence in 1925 on the identical basis — and retained the unique terraces, stone partitions, stone pillars and gardens.

Inside yellow-painted partitions and underneath a red-tone roof, the primary home most notably delivers that formal front room with a hand-painted coffered ceiling. That room — with a hearth and area for a grand piano — adjoins a library with built-in wood cabinets. Elsewhere, the formal eating room seems out to the stone terrace by means of good-looking glass doorways. The eat-in kitchen, with a big island and sufficient room for a big desk, has area for additional seating.

Upstairs, some bedrooms include fireplaces and, above that, an attic has room for added lounging or gaming area.

The manicured grounds, which adjoin a 161-acre land belief, additionally embrace a heated pool, a pool/carriage home, a storage with area for 3 vehicles and, on that second flooring, a visitor/workers retreat with two bedrooms, a rest room, a front room and a kitchen.

Laura Freed Ancona of William Pitt Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty has the itemizing.