page_title: Mark Twain Historic District
hierarchical_section_title: Mark Twain Historic District
caption_attribution_description: English: Buildings in Mark Twain Historic District . The district, which has been on the NRHP since January 4, 1978, is on Bird, Main, and Hill Sts., Hannibal, Missouri, near Samuel Clemens's boyhood home. These particular buildings are on the SE corner of Hill and Main (the "boyhood home" is slightly up Hill Street from the NW corner). From the NRHP plaques on these buildings and from other informational material posted on them, the most important of these buildings is the one on the corner (left). though it has been expanded to 3 floors and renovated, on the 2nd floor Clemens learned to set type there.
context_page_description: Mark Twain Historic District is a national historic district located at Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri. The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings in the central business district of Hannibal. It developed between about 1840 and 1936. Located in the district is the separately listed Mark Twain Boyhood Home. Other notable buildings include the Ice House Theatre, Randall House Antiques, Information Center, House of the Pilasters & Grant's Drug Store, "Becky Thatcher" House, and the Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse.
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
context_section_description: Mark Twain Historic District is a national historic district located at Hannibal, Marion County, Missouri.   The district encompasses 20 contributing buildings in the central business district of Hannibal. It developed between about 1840 and 1936. Located in the district is the separately listed Mark Twain Boyhood Home.  Other notable buildings include the Ice House Theatre (c. 1885), Randall House Antiques (c. 1845), Information Center (c. 1845), House of the Pilasters & Grant's Drug Store (1839-1844), "Becky Thatcher" House (c. 1840s), and the Mark Twain Memorial Lighthouse (1936).
  It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
caption: Mark Twain Historic District, July 2010
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