Main St. between Alden and Lakeside Sts., West Orange, New Jersey. County/parish: Essex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000052.
19 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
Thomas Edison National Historical Park preserves Thomas Edison's laboratory and residence, Glenmont, in West Orange, New Jersey, United States. These were designed, in 1887, by architect Henry Hudson Holly. The Edison laboratories operated for more than 40 years. Out of the West Orange laboratories came the motion picture camera, improved phonographs, sound recordings, silent and sound movies and the nickel-iron alkaline electric storage battery.
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