Mark Twain's Study

Susan Crane built it for her brother-in-law in 1874 — a one-room octagonal study on a knoll at Quarry Farm — and inside it, Mark Twain wrote *The Adventures of Tom Sawyer*, *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*, *Life on the Mississippi*, and *A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court*. He called it his "little nest on the hill." In 1952 the building was moved to the Elmira College campus, where it still stands, open to visitors.