William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace during the McGuffey Birthplace Restoration Grant-funded Project, 2003
THF1431 / William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace during the McGuffey Birthplace Restoration Grant-funded Project, 2003
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Artifact Overview
The William Holmes McGuffey Birthplace was in vital need of repair in the late 1990s. After more than sixty years in Greenfield Village, the circa 1780's one-room log house had significant deterioration from water damage. In the early 2000s, with funds from the Oliver Dewey Marcks Foundation and other organizations, Greenfield Village hired skilled craftspeople, who employed traditional techniques to restore the historic structure.
Artifact Details
Artifact
Digital image
Date Made
27 March 2003 - 31 March 2003
Subject Date
27 March 2003 - 31 March 2003
Collection Title
Location
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
EI.1929.5852
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Color
Multicolored
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ArtifactWilliam Holmes McGuffey Birthplace
This log home is typical of Scots-Irish log structures built in the densely forested area of southwestern Pennsylvania during the late 1700s. Anna and Alexander McGuffey lived here for five years and had three children before moving west to Ohio. Their second child, William Holmes (1800-1873), went on to create the popular Eclectic Readers for frontier schoolchildren.