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Greenfield Village, the outdoor living history museum section of the Henry Ford complex, was (along with the adjacent Henry Ford Museum) dedicated in 1929 and opened to the public in June 1933. [29] It was the first outdoor museum of its type in the nation, and served as a model for subsequent outdoor museums. [7]
The Edison and Ford Winter Estates contain a historical museum and 21 acre (8.5 ha) botanical garden on the adjacent sites of the winter homes of Thomas Edison and Henry Ford beside the Caloosahatchee River in Southwestern Florida. It is located at 2350 McGregor Boulevard, Fort Myers, Florida.
The Henry Ford: Dearborn: Wayne: Southeast Michigan: Multiple: Museum complex: living, science, history, automotive, transportation, technology and biographical about Henry Ford; formerly known as the Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village Heritage House: Essexville: Bay: Flint/Tri-Cities: Historic house: Early 20th-century Victorian period ...
Henry Ford Museum (Ford Motor Company), Dearborn, Michigan; Hostetler's Hudson Auto Museum, Shipshewana, Indiana [52] Closed 2018; Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum ...
The heritage area comprises more than 1200 automotive-related sites, [2] including the Henry Ford Museum, Fair Lane, various Ford plants, the Automotive Hall of Fame, the Sloan Museum, and the Arab American National Museum. [3]
Fair Lane was the estate of Ford Motor Company founder Henry Ford and his wife, Clara Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan, in the United States.It was named after an area in Cork in Ireland where Ford's adoptive grandfather, Patrick Ahern, was born.
The house became the new residence of the Edsel and Eleanor Ford family in 1928. Edsel Ford was the son of Henry Ford and an executive at Ford Motor Company. The estate's buildings were designed by architect Albert Kahn, its site plan and gardens by renowned landscape designer Jens Jensen. [3]
Dymaxion house as installed in the Henry Ford Museum. The Dymaxion house was developed by inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller to address several perceived shortcomings with existing homebuilding techniques. Fuller designed several versions of the house at different times—all of them factory manufactured kits, assembled on site, intended ...