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Franklyn Court

In the court, once stood as Franklyn's house is known as a house that was 3 stories high, covered 33 feet square, and included 10 rooms. The house was razed in 1812Seven museums located on the former site of Ben Franklin's home trace his life as publisher, politician, postmaster, printer, and inventor. These are his inventions: Bifocals, the Franklin stove, and the glass harmonium, which the park rangers will play at your request.
This museum was built for the American Bicentennial (1976), and is a fascinating example of what was considered good design in the 1970s. On one hand, there is an exact and completely functional reproduction of Franklin's post office (he was also the first Postmaster General). On the other hand, there is an underground museum that has as much neon and as many mirrors as any disco hall of the period. Yet the sense of exuberance and celebration seems to be something Dr. Franklin would have approved. This is the man, after all, who famously flew his kite in a storm to prove that lightning was electricity.

Below the court is a museum filled with paintings, objects, and inventions associated with Benjamin Franklin. I also observed a pretty reproduction of Franklin's Armonica, also called a glass harmonica, which consists of a set of graduated glass bowls on a rotating shaft that produce tones when a finger is pressed to the moistened rims. The main room has a phone bank where I could listen to testimonies about Franklin based on the words of Washington, Mozart, and D.H. Lawrence, among others. Franklin Court is an imaginative, informative, and a fun historical site to visit I learned a lot from this site, since I had no idea about what this building was about it took me a couple of hours to understand and absorb everything, it was a lot of information but at the same time information that is very helpful toward the historical visits that I was making.

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