Interior of Bagley Avenue Workshop in Greenfield Village, 1937
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Henry Ford constructed the Bagley Avenue Workshop in Greenfield Village in 1933. It replicated the shed behind the house where he and Clara lived at 58 Bagley in Detroit, and where Henry built his Quadricycle in 1896. The original shed was gone by the 1930s, but bricks from the Bagley Avenue house reportedly were used in the replica.
Henry Ford constructed the Bagley Avenue Workshop in Greenfield Village in 1933. It replicated the shed behind the house where he and Clara lived at 58 Bagley in Detroit, and where Henry built his Quadricycle in 1896. The original shed was gone by the 1930s, but bricks from the Bagley Avenue house reportedly were used in the replica.
Artifact
Photographic print
Subject Date
February 1937
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.P.833.67782.A
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Gelatin silver process
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Dimensions
Height: 8 in
Width: 10 in
Inscriptions
Caption on lower front reads: Birthplace of the Ford Car-- In a little brick shed on Bagley Avenue, Detroit, Henry Ford / began his first automobile in 1893. This replica of the shop stands at Greenfield Village, Dearborn.
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