A Gothic Revival villa, built in 1861 on Hartford’s Woodland Street for Charles Perkins, who was Mark Twain’s lawyer. Perkins was the son of Mary Beecher Perkins, an older sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Isabella Beecher Hooker. The house’s architect, Octavius Jordan, also created homes for these three Beecher sisters in the nearby Nook Farm neighborhood. Of these, the Thomas Clap Perkins House (1855), which was later the childhood home of Katharine Hepburn, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Oakholm” (1864) were both later torn down, but the John and Isabella Beecher Hooker House (1861) survives as an apartment building. The Perkins-Clark House was bought in 1924 by Probate Judge Walter Clark. Today it serves as the offices of an architectural firm.
