Robert Frost Home in Greenfield Village, September 2007
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Artifact Overview
Decorative arts representing the first half of the 19th century fill the rooms of the Robert Frost Home. Henry Ford had this Greek Revival house -- built in the 1830s in Ann Arbor, Michigan -- moved to Greenfield Village in the 1930s. In the early 2000s, the museum staff renamed the building to honor American poet Robert Frost, who lived there in the mid-1920s.
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
2008.171.593
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Technique
Digital photography (Digital camera)
Color
Multicolored
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Robert Frost, one of America's greatest poets, had an extraordinary ability to put complex and deeply insightful ideas into everyday language. In the mid-1920s, Frost lived in this house while he was the University of Michigan's first poet-in-residence. Here, located away from the bustle of the Ann Arbor campus, his creative spirit and imagination soared as he wrote poetry and met with students.
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No former residents of this house were as famous or as internationally renowned as American poet Robert Frost (1874-1963). This house, discovered by Henry Ford on a drive through Ann Arbor, Michigan, became a stellar example of Greek Revival architecture in Ford's Greenfield Village, and it still exhibits furnishings from the period. Only within this century has its most celebrated resident reclaimed his rightful place.