Noah Webster Home during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, February 2003
THF1247 / Noah Webster Home during the Greenfield Village Restoration Project, February 2003
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Artifact Overview
By 2000, Greenfield Village began showing its age. Buildings and crumbling infrastructure desperately needed repair. Museum planners envisioned a revitalized village. They created themed "Historic Districts" by relocating and refurbishing the historic structures. Workers repaved streets and upgraded water, sewer, electric, and gas lines. In June 2003, nine months after restoration began, visitors passed through a new entrance into a reborn Greenfield Village.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Digital photograph
Date Made
06 February 2003-20 February 2003
Subject Date
06 February 2003-20 February 2003
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.5829
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Multicolored
Dimensions
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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.