Franklin's legacy: documented furnishings.(Benjamin Franklin)

From: The Magazine Antiques | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Talbott, Page | Copyright information

No residence closely associated with Benjamin Franklin (PL II) has survived on American or French soil. His family house on Milk Street in Boston, the several houses he rented in Philadelphia, and the mansion house he built there in 1764 (in a courtyard off Market Street between Third and Fourth Streets) have long since been torn down. (1) Likewise the elegant hotel in Passy, near Paris, where Franklin lived for nine years is no longer standing. Only the Georgian house owned by the ...

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