Edison and Ford had neighboring houses in Fort Myers Florida that are still there today that you can tour. Cars has rubber laboratory. It’s pretty fascinating. You should check it out.
Thanks so much for this video, Chris. Edison’s house, garage, green house and grounds are absolutely beautiful. You did a wonderful job on explaining the history. Although you couldn’t video inside the house, you were able to find pictures of the inside of the house. That’s good enough. Great job, Chris & much love to you.😀❤️
A few years back, the Classic Car Club Of America held a grand event on the lawn. We displayed about 50 early classic automobiles, Packards, Duesenbergs, Pierce Arrows, Cadillacs, Rolls Royces ect, the estate gave us a big lunch and we did get to tour the inside of the house and garage. I took a picture of my 1930 Packard in front of the house and framed it. It's hanging on my office wall. It was a wonderful day.
My father worked for the Edison Co. starting at age 15 in 1929 & was there when Thomas Edison passed away in 1931! He was an "office boy" in the Brooklyn NY hdqts. when his boss announced that Mr, Edison had died! He then asked all employees to bow their heads for one minute of prayer!/ When you realize that Edison essentially was the "Father of the Twentieth Century', one minute of silence was an insult to this genius!
Thank you so much for the visit here. I have been to Henry Ford’s Home in Dearborn Michigan. It currently is not touring. Edison’s home is so beautiful. Thank your for the history and showing us around.
Interesting side-note to Edison's death - At the Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, MI there is a nondescript glass display case. In it there is a jar with a lid on it, and it is labeled "Thomas Edison's Last Breath". Don't know if it was Henry himself, but apparently someone was waiting there with a jar by his mouth and captured his last breath and saved it for posterity.
Next stop, Valley View in Phillipsburg for the Edison Houses Ingresoll-Rand built? And a quick stop on the Edison Concrete Mile in Stewartsville? Maybe a stop in at the Franklin-Sterling Hill Mining District near Ogdensburg, that Edison spent 10 year at? Always a great video Chris!! Safe travels along your journies!
These old mansions in all their grandeur were hand crafted works of art. No electric tools back then. Build entirely with hand tools. Being built almost entirely of wood. They deteriorate quickly without regular upkeep and maintenance. Once rot sets in, it spreads quickly.
Building the garage out of poured concrete in 1908 would have required an on-site concrete plant as ready-mix trucks weren't invented until the 1920's.
Hydronic heating which is what is in the green house is one of the most efficient ways to heat a home or building. The only thing that could be improved upon is the boiler.
You should have gone to Greenfield Village when you went to the Henry Ford Museum, they have all of Edison’s tooling, blue prints, and they even moved his actual shop to Greenfield Village. So much more to explore there.
I worked maintenance at our copshome home years ago before I retired... Mansion here in town.. famous for the Oliver chilled plow.. who invented I guess a hardening process of the plowr could break up the soil and not wear out. And they did not allow photography in the house.. which is now a museum here in town
Sad to see, for the lack of simple fresh paint, the house and other structures are allowed to deteriorate. The West Orange facilities are run by the Federal Parks Service and probably a little better funded.
Not a bad video mobile instinct. Now, where is the video you were enthusiastic about which I recommended highly? The 72-year-old Annie Laurie Hearin abducted from her home in the 1980s and her husband was the richest man in the state. They did a whole episode about this on Unsolved mysteries. I have every faith in you to do a video story about that poor woman being abducted and never found. A man was arrested by the police, put in court, convicted in front of a judge, he did 15 years in prison and still the poor woman was never found. Please do a video on this subject. That poor woman needs her story to be told.
Some of the old vs new pics don't match exactly. In the first bit of the video there is no big chimney, then there is. The rotten wood stair railing doesn't match either
Interesting and at the same time it does not look as though they take care of the buildings as they should. As far as taking pictures goes in my view that is a zero in my book.
Were you walking around with someone on the grounds? I ask this because at the 12 minute mark when you pause, someone clearly says It's beautiful. Woman's voice I think.
