Noah Webster Home in Greenfield Village, September 2007
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Artifact Overview
The house in this digital image was constructed about 1823 in New Haven, Connecticut. The floor plan was devised by the Webster family in consultation with a local builder. The home was arranged to accommodate two elderly people who found large, drafty rooms and stair climbing a hardship. Noah was nearly sixty-five when he moved in, bringing his wife Rebecca, four of his seven children, and a free black servant.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Digital photograph
Subject Date
September 2007
Creators
Creator Notes
Photographed by Michelle Andonian.
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2008.171.11
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Technique
Digital photography (Digital camera)
Color
Multicolored
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ArtifactNoah Webster Home
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.