Noah Webster Home in Greenfield Village, September 2007
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Artifact Overview
Henry Ford admired textbook pioneer and spelling reformer Noah Webster. Ford purchased Webster's New Haven, Connecticut, home and moved it to Greenfield Village in 1936 to join a growing list of historic buildings in Ford's outdoor museum in Dearborn, Michigan. This image shows the house's interior in 2007.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Digital image
Subject Date
September 2007
Creators
Creator Notes
Photographed by Michelle Andonian.
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
2008.171.18
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Technique
Digital photography (Digital camera)
Color
Multicolored
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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.