Joseph Henry's House in Princeton, New Jersey

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Object Details

Author

Unknown

Subject

Henry, Joseph 1797-1878

Torch, The (Staff Magazine)

Princeton University

College of New Jersey (Princeton, N.J.)

Notes

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

Date

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.)

Data Source

Smithsonian Archives - History Div

Topic

Secretaries

Houses

Metadata Usage

Usage conditions apply

Record ID

siris_sic_13549