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After being moved to the Bell Homestead it was converted into an adjunct museum on the development of telephone technology. The Homestead is operated by the Bell Homestead Committee of the City of Brantford. [2] The Homestead was named a National Historic Site on June 1, 1996, and was listed on the national Register of Historic Places on June ...
The Bell Memorial (also known as the Bell Monument or Telephone Monument) is a memorial designed by Walter Seymour Allward to commemorate the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell at the Bell Homestead National Historic Site, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada.
The Bell Homestead Museum, part of the Bell Homestead National Historic Site in Brantford, Ontario, was the Bell family's first home in North America and the site where Bell invented the telephone in the July 1874. Bell's parents and extended family lived on the 10 acre site for 11 years, with the homestead being sold when his parents moved to ...
In 1969, the building was carefully moved to the historic Bell Homestead National Historic Site in Brantford, Ontario, and was refurbished to become a telephone museum. The Bell Homestead, the Henderson Home telephone museum, and the National Historic Site's reception centre are all maintained by the Bell Homestead Society; [203]
Brantford is known as the "Telephone City" because the city's famous resident, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the first telephone at his father's homestead, Melville House, now the Bell Homestead, located in Tutela Heights south of the city. Brantford is also known as the birthplace and hometown of Wayne Gretzky and Phil Hartman.
After a brief stay of only a few days with Rev. Henderson, the Bell family purchased a farmhouse and orchard of 5 1 ⁄ 4 hectares (13 acres) [9] on the outskirts of Brantford, Ontario, for $2,600, [10] which is now the Bell Homestead National Historic Site. The Bells were likely helped in their search by the advance efforts of Reverend ...
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the Bell Homestead Museum, also known as Melville House, part of the Bell Homestead National Historic Site, in Brantford, Ontario, Canada, the Bell family's first home in North America and the location where Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in July 1874. Bells. the Bast Bell Museum, a bell museum in Germantown, Wisconsin, U.S.A.