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Harriet Foster Beecher was one of the first artists to settle in Port Townsend. She lived in the house she and her mother designed, with her husband Herbert Foote Beecher (nephew of Harriet Beecher Stowe). Beecher was one of the finest of the state’s early artists and art teachers. Her house held a studio used as an art school. Her success as an art teacher can be shown in the number of her students who were accepted to show their pictures at the Chicago World’s Fair in 1893. Of the 150 pictures in the Washington state exhibit, 38 were from Port Townsend and 36 of those were by Beecher’s students. Nearly a hundred years after Beecher moved, it is used as an art studio again by Harold Nelson, a local paper collage artist.