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Operating Hours & Seasons
Kitchen showing the cabinets, work table and stove. Reproduction flooring will be installed within the next two months.
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Reproduction flooring has been installed in the kitchen above, and other first floor servant areas.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hours of Operation

  • The estate is open Friday through Sunday.
  • House tours are from 12:00pm - 4:00pm. and begin on the hour.  
  • Grounds are open 11:30am - 5:00pm.

 

  The Laboratory will remain closed while construction continues.
Thomas Alva Edison looking straight at the camera.  

Did You Know?
In 1920 Thomas Edison told reporter B.F. Forbes that he was working on a machine that could make contact with the spirits of the dead. Newspapers all over the world picked up this story. After a few years, Edison admitted that he had made the whole thing up.

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Last Updated: April 27, 2009 at 11:23 EST