The business was located on Michigan Avenue in Detroit, from until Shops like Grimm's prospered in cities, selling mass-produced goods of the newly industrializing society.
Grimm and his family lived above the store in comfortable but relatively modest quarters. It served food to nighttime workers in downtown Detroit, and attracted such diverse clientele as reporters, politicians, policemen, factory workers, and supposedly even underworld characters! Among its customers was Henry Ford, a young engineer working at Edison Illuminating Company during the s.
Henry Ford transformed the storage shed behind his family's rented duplex at 58 Bagley Avenue in Detroit into a workshop. Here, in , he built his first car -- the "Quadricycle. The original shed had been torn down, so he reportedly used bricks from a wall of the Bagley Avenue residence instead.
Henry Ford attended Miller School at age nine. The small, one-room building was typical of rural schools throughout the United States in the s. Ford had this replica built in Greenfield Village in the early s. Henry Ford was born in this farmhouse on July 30, Ford grew up in the house and moved out at age 16 to find work in Detroit. He restored the farmhouse in and moved it to Greenfield Village in When Edsel Ford passed away in , Henry and Clara Ford constructed this building to memorialize their son.
It was based on a workshop that father and son shared above the garage at the family home in Detroit's Boston-Edison neighborhood, where the Fords lived while Edsel was a teenager. The short posts framing the door are from the original site. Henry Ford's third automobile company, formed in , set up shop in a former wagon factory on Detroit's Mack Avenue.
Ford's small crew assembled Model As from components made elsewhere. This building is a replica, about one-fourth the size of the original Mack Avenue plant. Luther Burbank , an American horticulturalist and author, gained a reputation for selective breeding that yielded more than new fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other plants.
He opened this Bureau of Information in at the corner of his acre experimental garden in Santa Rosa to sell seeds and souvenirs. It served various purposes over the years until Burbank's widow offered it to Henry Ford in Enslaved African Americans built and lived in these brick quarters on the Hermitage Plantation, located just north of the city of Savannah in a rice-growing region.
Owned by Henry McAlpin, in this prosperous plantation had enslaved workers who lived in about 50 similar buildings. These enslaved workers cultivated rice, and manufactured bricks, rice barrels, cast iron products, and lumber. Luther Burbank , an American plant breeder, naturalist, and author, was especially noted for his experiments with plants, fruits, and vegetables. He was born in this house, built around and originally located in Lancaster, Massachusetts.
Although he attended local schools there, much of his knowledge about nature and plant life came from reading books at the public library. Just as private ferry operators carried early travelers across rivers, many of the first bridges were built and operated as private businesses, and travelers paid tolls to cross them.
This toll house, built in , collected fares for a bridge across the Merrimack River in Rocks Village, Massachusetts. Henry Ford acquired the building a century later and moved it to Greenfield Village. In addition to lending some charm, covering a bridge protects its wooden truss work from weather, extending the structure's service life.
Henry Ford acquired the bridge in , when it was scheduled to be torn down, and moved it to Greenfield Village. This barn and stable were part of the Cotswold Cottage original site. The larger portion was the barn, used for storing and threshing grain.
The wide doors and high ceilings gave room for threshing with a flail, or storing a cart. The smaller portion was the stable, likely for a cow or ox. The low ceilings keep the stable warmer. Cotswold Cottage is from the Cotswold Hills in southwest England. The Fords were attracted to the distinctive character of Cotswold buildings, which are characterized by the yellow-brown stone, tall gables, steeply pitched roofs, and stone ornamentation around windows and doors. Several decorative additions were made to the house in England, before dismantling and re-erecting it in Greenfield Village.
John Giddings was a merchant who earned a good living in the West Indies trade. Giddings lived here with his wife and five children. He built this grand house in in Exeter, New Hampshire.
Its plan was typical of upscale New England houses of its time, with a multi-purpose hall and parlor on the first floor and two bedrooms above. During the s, this simple farmhouse was the home of John B. Chapman and his wife Susie. Chapman taught several terms in the one-room schools of his rural community. Young Henry Ford was one of his pupils. Chapman also worked at other tasks for much of the year, as a farmhand and as a cooper, making barrels for local farmers.
This cabin was originally located on a steep bank overlooking a tributary of the Mohawk River, just outside of Schenectady, New York. Its simplicity was a contrast to the General Electric laboratories where Steinmetz spent his workweek. It served as a getaway -- for quiet study or writing, but also for more animated weekend camp gatherings for selected friends and associates. This forge belonged to the Stanley family, who were the blacksmiths in the Cotswold village of Snowshill from before The business passed between family members until it ceased operation in with the death of Charles Stanley.
Blacksmiths made tools and hardware from iron. At the time of the shop's closing, most work was repair of factory-made items.
This log home is typical of Scots-Irish log structures built in the densely forested area of southwestern Pennsylvania during the late s. Anna and Alexander McGuffey lived here for five years and had three children before moving west to Ohio. Their second child, William Holmes , went on to create the popular Eclectic Readers for frontier schoolchildren.
This building is a replica of a shed found on site when Henry Ford's assistants dismantled McGuffey's log home birthplace in southwestern Pennsylvania. While there is no evidence that this was originally a smokehouse, the size and form of the original shed, and the presence of other smokehouses in the area, suggest that this might have been one.
The Plympton House is one room with a loft. The central circular chimney was constructed first and the rest of the house was built around it.
This design offered warmth from the harsh New England winters. The continual need to grow or make many of the things they needed left little time for luxuries for these early colonists. Thomas Edison's great-grandparents fled to Canada after the American Revolution because they had sided with the British. Edison's grandparents started a farm and built this home there. As a boy, Edison enjoyed visiting the farm, where he played in the barn, went swimming, and fished in a nearby river.
The McGuffey School was built in Greenfield Village in , created out of barn logs from the s southwestern Pennsylvania farmstead where textbook author William Holmes McGuffey was born. Children living in frontier communities learned to read in rustic schoolhouses like this one. McGuffey's Eclectic Readers gave them an easy, standardized way to do it. This house was originally located in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania, the town where composer Stephen Foster was born.
When it was brought to Greenfield Village in , the home was thought to be Foster's birthplace. Now called The Sounds of America Gallery , it houses a display of musical instruments. During the early 19th century, Americans looked to classical Greece for inspiration in establishing our national identity. Buy Tickets Or become a member and save. Tap into your can-do spirit. Working Farms Immerse yourself in the ingenuity of the American farm.
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Yes No What could we improve on? By , when the novelist Hamlin Garland paid it a visit, the sometime tractor plant was already bulging. However, Ford would view the contradiction from a vantage point foreclosed to the rest of us. By , moreover, even the Industrial Revolution—the first one, that is—was taking on the sweetness of days gone by.
The news stunned Dearborn. It was because he—and he alone—had decided to design the perfect, pared-down cheap automobile and keep on producing it forever that he had been able to introduce the assembly line. That premise itself depended on a still larger assumption: that Americans would want a Model T forever.
Ford could see no reason why they would not. The Model T embodied all the virtues Americans had so long admired. It was tough, durable, dependable, and simple—republican simplicity embodied in a vehicle.
It was so down-to-earth, so stubbornly utilitarian that its very ugliness seemed a mark of its puritan mettle. Because nobody wants to be seen in one. Sometime in the Motor King was forced to make one of the most painful decisions of his career.
As of May, , the Model T would go out of production. That he eventually would build a museum for his enormous collection was an idea Ford had had in mind for some time.
He even had toyed with the idea for re-creating some sort of old New England village on history-rich property he owned in Sudbury, Massachusetts. In , however, he decided otherwise. Sudbury was too far away for what the Motor King now needed. A large vacant field lay adjacent to the experimental laboratory, not far from the new Ford Airport.
No history attached to the place whatever. There, nonetheless, Ford decided to erect a completely imaginary, Ford-crafted American village. By early , Edward Cutler, a company draftsman—Ford avoided experts like the plague—was laying out the ground plan using the colonial New England village as the prototype.
This one, however, was subtle and exacting. It was not they who had made America great; Ford was strongly inclined to think they had been working in the opposite direction.
There were personal predilections to heed. The style would abound in the village. Knowing Mr. His engineering career had begun with a boyhood passion for clocks and watches. Three jewelry stores eventually would wind up in the village. Around the time the last Model T rolled off the great assembly line, Ford brought his first building to the village—a seventy-five-year-old general store, the true social center of every old American hamlet.
The owner was happy to exchange it for the spanking new brick emporium which Ford agreed to erect in its place. A later acquisition was a mournfully decrepit stagecoach inn—the Motor King was particularly partial to horse-and-buggy relics—which had been standing in Clinton, Michigan, since , the first stop on the rough frontier road from Detroit to Chicago.
Outfitting the taproom, parlor, kitchen, and bedrooms with appropriate period furnishings was, of course, no trouble whatever to the man who collected everything. It stood next to the store on the embryonic village green. The Motor King intended his museum cum village to be a mighty memorial to Thomas Edison, the only man living whom Ford himself held in awe.
Within the greater memorial Ford decided in March, , to erect a more specific one to the Wizard of Menlo Park, a place Edison had abandoned back in In Ford also acquired for his nascent village the Smiths Creek Depot of the Grand Trunk railway because young Edison had worked in it as a telegrapher after being tossed out there by a railway conductor for starting a fire in the baggage car. Even the official dedication of the Edison Institute was timed as a tribute to Edison.
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