915-940 Whitney Ave., Hamden, Connecticut. County/parish: New Haven.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places August 13, 1974. NRIS 74002049.
3 contributing buildings. 8 contributing sites. 1 contributing structure.
The Eli Whitney Museum, in Hamden, Connecticut, is an experimental learning workshop for students, teachers, and families. The museum's main building is located on a portion of the Eli Whitney Gun Factory site, a gun factory erected by Eli Whitney in 1798. The museum focuses on teaching experiments that are the roots of design and invention, featuring hands-on building projects and exhibits on Whitney and A. C. Gilbert.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/132355633