Nook Farm
An artistic enclave and America’s first “proto-suburb,” the houses here were built on a former farm in a nook in the North Branch of the Park River. It included both the Mark Twain House (his solarium overlooked the actual nook) and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House, and then continued along Forest Street to Hawthorn Street. Other notables who lived here were John and Isabella Beecher Hooker, Charles Dudley and Susan Warner, William Gillette (as in Gillette Castle), and Nathaniel Burton (a senior pastor at the Park Congregational Church, which would eventually merge into Immanuel Congregational Church).
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