Journey with us and discover the Hartford Katharine Hepburn and her family knew. Visit the south end of the city where she was born and view the hospital where her father was a doctor. Travel to downtown Hartford where she and her family shopped, visited museums and theaters and where her mother campaigned for women's suffrage. Continue to the west end of the city where Katharine spent her younger years. See her "climbing tree," the market where she bought candy, visit the parks, the street where she walked to school and the avenue where she and her brother raced trolleys with their bicycles. Learn about family, friends and neighbors and see where they lived. See her parent's large home and see the theater where she first appeared in Hartford in a play and signed "Local girl" below her signature on the autograph wall. Our tour concludes with a visit to her grave in the secluded family gravesite south of the city.

This guided bus tour begins with her birth in 1907 until she departed for college in 1924 and does not include her lengthy and well-known acting career. Stops are made for narration and photos only. The only time people leave the bus is to visit Katharine Hepburn's grave.

Photo of Katharine Hepburn's climbing tree
she writes about on page #32 of her 1991 autobiography,
Me - Stories of My Life.

Her first Hartford performance was here at the Bushnell Memorial Theater in 1942 in the play, Without Love.

View this 1850s house which is a copy of the home across the street (now destroyed) where Katharine Hepburn lived for almost ten years, 1908-1917.

See the Pratt Street office location where Katharine Hepburn's mother was president of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association for ten years.

Available Monday - Saturday  mornings -  9am thru 11am - About two hours.

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Heritage Trails Sightseeing Tours
P. O. Box 138
Farmington, CT 06034-0138