Object Details
- Author
- Unknown
- Subject
- Henry, Joseph 1797-1878
- Torch, The (Staff Magazine)
- Princeton University
- College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)
- Category
- Historic Images of the Smithsonian
- See SIA2012-2992 for Henry's house at its first location.
- Printed in Torch, May 1965, page 4.
- Joseph Henry's house was built in 1838. The house has sat in four different places at Princeton having moved around the campus three times from its original location.
- Summary
- House of Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution from 1846 to 1878, in Princeton, New Jersey. Before Henry came to the Smithsonian, he was a professor at Princeton University. The house that he lived in on campus still stands and has been designated a National Historical Landmark.
- Contained within
- Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371, Box 1, Folder: May 1965
- Contact information
- Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
- 1965
- Standard number
- SIA2012-8400
- Restrictions & Rights
- No restrictions
- Type
- Exterior
- Photographic print
- Physical description
- Number of Images: 1 ; Color: Black and White ; Size: 4.75w x 3.5h ; Type of Image: Exterior ; Medium: Photographic print
- Place
- Princeton (N.J.)
- Smithsonian Archives - History Div
- Topic
- Secretaries
- Houses
- Record ID
- siris_sic_13549
