Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House
Connecticut, United States
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Visible from the street; the inside is private.
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Built around 1780 in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown, Connecticut, the Sanford-Curtis-Thurber House is a large Georgian farmhouse originally constructed for Thomas Sanford, one of the area's early settlers. The property passed to Hezekiah Curtis in 1824 and was later purchased in 1931 by Althea Thurber, wife of the celebrated author and humorist James Thurber. The house served as a weekend retreat where Thurber's family dogs—whose antics inspired his humorous sketches for The New Yorker—roamed freely. During his time here, Thurber wrote portions of his most acclaimed work, *My Life and Hard Times*, and his only daughter was born at the residence. Walls throughout the house bore his distinctive sketches, examples of which are now preserved at the Thurber House at Ohio State University. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.
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- National Register of Historic Places listed place
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- Connecticut, United States
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