The Noah Webster Home

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In his New Haven, Connecticut home, Noah Webster wrote the first dictionary of the American English language. The house changed hands, serving as a private residence and dormitory for more than a century before coming to Greenfield Village in 1936.

In his New Haven, Connecticut home, Noah Webster wrote the first dictionary of the American English language. The house changed hands, serving as a private residence and dormitory for more than a century before coming to Greenfield Village in 1936.

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Side View of Noah Webster House at Its Original Site, New Haven, Connecticut, 1936

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This is textbook pioneer and spelling reformer Noah Webster's home on its original site in New Haven, Connecticut. Henry Ford admired Webster and recognized his house as an important piece of American history. Ford had the building moved to Greenfield Village - his historical outdoor museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This side view documents later additions not moved with the house.

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Exterior of the Noah Webster House at its Original Site, New Haven, Connecticut, 1936

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This is textbook pioneer and spelling reformer Noah Webster's home on its original site in New Haven, Connecticut. Henry Ford admired Webster and recognized his house as an important piece of American history. Ford had the building moved to Greenfield Village - his historical outdoor museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This view documents the original back porch and additions not moved with the house.

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Noah Webster Home at Its Original Site, New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1912

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This is textbook pioneer and spelling reformer Noah Webster's home on its original site in New Haven, Connecticut. Henry Ford admired Webster and recognized his house as an important piece of American history. Ford had the building moved to Greenfield Village - his historical outdoor museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This view documents side and rear additions not moved with the house.

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Exterior of the Noah Webster House at its Original Site, New Haven, Connecticut, circa 1927

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This is textbook pioneer and spelling reformer Noah Webster's home on its original site in New Haven, Connecticut. Henry Ford admired Webster and recognized his house as an important piece of American history. Ford had the building moved to Greenfield Village - his historical outdoor museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This view documents side and rear additions not moved with the house.

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Exterior of the Noah Webster House at its Original Site on Temple Street in New Haven Connecticut, circa 1927

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Noah and Rebecca Webster built their comfortable home in a fashionable middle-class neighborhood of New Haven, Connecticut, during the early 1820s. They lived only a few blocks from New Haven's town green and very near Yale College. The house, shown here (far right) about 1927, was situated close to the street, as were most urban homes of the early 19th century.

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Exterior of the Noah Webster House at its Original Site, New Haven, Connecticut, March 31, 1934

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This is textbook pioneer and spelling reformer Noah Webster's home on its original site in New Haven, Connecticut. Henry Ford admired Webster and recognized his house as an important piece of American history. Ford had the building moved to Greenfield Village - his historical outdoor museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This view documents architectural details, including second floor bay windows not moved with the house.

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Noah Webster Home

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Noah Webster and his wife Rebecca had this comfortable New Haven, Connecticut, home built in their later years to be near family and friends, as well as the library at nearby Yale College. While living in this house, Webster published his famous American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828. His dictionary aimed to capture distinctively American words and spellings for the first time.

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