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The world has been reshaped again and again by people from and things created in New Jersey. From Edison’s light bulb, to the Atlantic City boardwalk, to the first intercollegiate football game, to Frank Sinatra and Count Basie, New Jersey’s innovations and innovators have had an impact around the nation and around the world.

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Joseph Henry House, 1838


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Innovation: Joseph Henry House, 1838


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Joseph Henry House photograph Joseph Henry House, 1838

Mercer County, Princeton Borough
Princeton University Campus
National Historical Landmark


Physicist Joseph Henry (1797-1878), an American pioneer in electromagnetism research and invention, taught at the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) from 1832 until his appointment as first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. Henry designed and built this Greek Revival residence on campus near Stanhope Hall in 1837-38, and lived there until accepting the top post at the Smithsonian. The house has been carefully moved three times to make way for building projects on the Princeton campus, in 1870, 1925, and in 1946 to its current location facing Front Campus near Nassau Hall. A National Historic Landmark since 1965, the building now houses the University’s Andlinger Center for the Humanities.

Joseph Henry House current photograph Joseph Henry house 1872 photograph

Joseph Henry House. 
Courtesy Craig Weldon Duff

Joseph Henry House, 1872. 
Courtesy Princeton University Library

Joseph Henry Portrait photograph


For more information on this site and subject, search the following terms: “Joseph Henry” “Joseph Henry House Princeton” “Joseph Henry Electromagnetism”

Joseph Henry,
Courtesy Smithsonian Institution

 
 

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