litchfield connecticut and western connecticut and her life she lived in boston cincinnati brunswick maine andover massachusetts and jena has been retired to be near her two sisters here in hartford connecticut. in hartford they had two houses. first of the middle of the civil war stowe boelter dream house, her glamorous mansion and they built that house moved in 1863 and lived there for about eight years and then discovered over those years that it was too expensive to maintain so they downsized into this more modest but still spacious hartford home where they lived out the rest of their lives. stowe moved into this fourth street house in hartford in 1873 in the house had been built on specs and lived in for a couple of years. she didn't specially build it. she moved into it as she had with most of the home she lived in in her life. she moved in with her husband calvin stowe whom she married in 1836 and he was about 10 years older than her and he was a professor of theology. he was retired and she moved in with her oldest children, twin girls, adult daughters and they were in their 30s. stowe was in her 60s wa