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GMONT_110528_001.JPG: Edison's Home, Glenmont:
In 1886 Thomas Edison bought Glenmont as a gift for his bride, Mina Miller. After moving in, Edison said that the 23-room Victorian mansion was "a great deal too nice for me, but it isn't half nice enough for my little wife."
The Edisons and their children often used the grounds for sports and games, to entertain visitors, and to relax. During your visit, take time to explore some of Glenmont's 13-1/2 acres and enjoy the estate that Thomas Edison called home for 44 years.
GMONT_110528_006.JPG: Llewellyn Park:
In 1853 New York merchant Llewellyn S. Haskell hired architect Alexander Jackson Davis to transform an old farmhouse on the eastern slope of Orange Mountain. Impressed with the scenic vistas, Haskell purchased more land and created Llewellyn Park – the first planned residential community in the United States.
Today, Llewellyn Park contains about 160 lots on 420 acres. Since the 1850s, changes in Llewellyn Park's acreage, lot sizes, and architectural taste all influenced houses built here. Glenmont is one of the few remaining Victorian-style estates in what is still a private residential community.
GMONT_110528_022.JPG: Greenhouse and Barn:
This greenhouse, built in 1909 to replace a smaller one, supplied the Edison household with potted plants and cut flowers year-round. The two-story potting shed, made of Edison Portland Cement, provided work space on the first floor and gardener's quarters on the second floor. A barn, screened by hemlock trees at far right, once sheltered cows, goats, chickens, and horses.
Under Mina Edison's direction, the head gardener and his assistants maintained the flower gardens, a vegetable garden, and the estate's 13-1/2 acres of landscaped grounds. Although the garden and livestock provided some food for the Edisons, local grocers supplied most of the daily provisions, while merchants and restaurateurs from New York City furnished the delicacies for formal dinners.
GMONT_110528_067.JPG: The pipes underneath are totally rusted away
GMONT_110528_100.JPG: Wildlife!
GMONT_110528_121.JPG: The Estate Staff:
This laundry yard was often filled with clothes hung out to dry. Inside the house domestic servants cooked, cleaned, and tended to the family's needs. Mina Edison supervised a staff that included a cook, governess, personal maid, kitchen maid, chauffeur, and gardener. Female domestics lived on Glenmont's third floor while the men were housed in quarters in the garage, barn and greenhouse.
The semi-circular drive around the laundry yard leads to Glenmont's servants' entrance and kitchen where deliverymen brought ice, food, and other supplies. When the Edisons hosted formal dinners, local employment agencies provided waiters, waitresses, and additional temporary staff.
GMONT_110528_142.JPG: There are a fair number of breaks in the fencing as the place gradually decays.
GMONT_110528_147.JPG: National Historic Site
Glenmont
Home of
Thomas Alva Edison
from 1886 to his death
on October 18, 1931.
Here three children
were born to him and
his wife, Mina.
The Library over the
entranceway was his
"Thought Laboratory"
for many ideas which
later took shape at
the Edison Laboratory
in the valley below.
National Park Service
United States
Department of the Interior
GMONT_110528_203.JPG: Presented to
Thomas A. Edison Esq.
by the
Imperial Japanese College
of Engineering
Tokyo
1885
GMONT_110528_588.JPG: Record wavelength signatures for various celebrities
GMONT_110528_720.JPG: Thomas and Mina's graves
GMONT_110528_752.JPG: Garage:
Built in 1908 with Edison Portland Cement, construction of this garage gave Thomas Edison experience in using concrete as a building material. Although it was built with conventional methods, Edison used the garage to help develop his own technique of constructing mass-produced, poured-concrete houses using iron molds.
The garage housed the family's gasoline and electric automobiles, including a 1922 Model T Ford (a gift from Henry Ford, a family friend), two Detroit Electrics, and a 1902 Locomobile which Edison adapted to run on his own storage batteries. To care for these vehicles, the garage had a car wash, gas pump, air compressor, battery charger, and a turntable to help park as many as ten vehicles.
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Generally-Related Pages: Other pages with content (NJ -- Edison NHS (Laboratory)) somewhat related to this one:
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2011_NJ_EdisonNHS: NJ -- Edison NHS (Laboratory) (201 photos from 2011)
2003_NJ_EdisonNHS: NJ -- Edison NHS (Laboratory) (4 photos from 2003)
2011 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs camera as well as two Nikon models -- the D90 and the new D7000. Mostly a toy, I also purchased a Fuji Real 3-D W3 camera, to try out 3-D photographs. I found it interesting although I don't see any real use for 3-D stills now. Given that many of the photos from the 1860s were in 3-D (including some of the more famous Civil War shots), it's odd to see it coming back.
Trips this year:
Civil War Trust conferences (Savannah, GA, Chattanooga, TN),
New Jersey over Memorial Day for my birthday (people never seem to visit New Jersey -- it's always just a pit stop on the way to New York. I thought I might as well spend a few days there. Despite some nice places, it still ended up a pit stop for me -- New York City was infinitely more interesting),
my 6th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco).
Ego strokes: Author photos that I took were used on two book jackets this year: Jason Emerson's book "The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow As Revealed by Her Own Letters" and Dennis L. Noble's "The U.S. Coast Guard's War on Human Smuggling." I also had a photo of Jason Stelter published in the Washington Examiner and a picture of Miss DC, Ashley Boalch, published in the Washington Post.
Number of photos taken this year: just over 390,000.
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