Bowdoin College sues over home where Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote most of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"

DOUGLAS MCINTIRE / THE TIMES RECORD

BRUNSWICK -- Bowdoin College has sued the owner, real estate broker and the potential buyer of a historic home at 28 College St. The college argues it has already exercised an option to purchase the property.

The home has been priced as high as $3 million in the last few years and advertised as the home where Harriet Beecher Stowe penned most of her antislavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” when it was originally located on Park Row.

The college has disputed that claim, arguing historians and Stowe scholars agree that the book was written at a home on 63 Federal St. where the author had lived while her husband was a professor at Bowdoin.

The college has now filed a motion for preliminary injunction and accompanying complaint against owner Arline P. Lay, real estate broker David J. Jones and Louise Jonaitis who has made an offer on the property.

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