Mark Twain Study - Elmira

Mark Twain's study is located at the intersection of College Avenue and 7th Street, on the campus of Elmira College, in Elmira, New York.  Although the famed author lived in Hartford, Connecticut, he summered in Elmira for twenty years, at the home of his sister-in-law, Susan Langdon Crane.  Quarry Farm, as the property is known, was inherited by Susan when her father, Jervis Langdon died in 1870.  In 1874 an octangonal study was built near the house which Twain would use to write some of his best known works.  The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881), The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) were all penned at his study at Quarry Farm during summers in Elmira.  The study was moved to the campus of Elmira College in 1952.  In 1983 Quarry Farm was left to Elmira College by the family of Twain.  The study has been  placed on the Literary Landmark Register  and the National Register of Historic Places.

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