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- Installing the Teak Wood Floor inside Henry Ford Museum, 1938 - One of the more distinctive features of Henry Ford's Edison Institute museum -- today's Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation -- is its teak floor. Hand-laid in a herringbone pattern, each piece measures 3 inches wide by 18 inches long. Though the museum opened to the public in 1933, workers didn't complete the nearly 350,000 square feet of wood flooring until 1938.
- 31 April 1938
- Collections - Artifact
Installing the Teak Wood Floor inside Henry Ford Museum, 1938
One of the more distinctive features of Henry Ford's Edison Institute museum -- today's Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation -- is its teak floor. Hand-laid in a herringbone pattern, each piece measures 3 inches wide by 18 inches long. Though the museum opened to the public in 1933, workers didn't complete the nearly 350,000 square feet of wood flooring until 1938.