Crane-Philips House - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Crane-Philips House - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Crane-Phillips House, located at 124 N. Union Avenue in CranfordLocation of the house. https://goo.gl/maps/TRi7HZYwr9E2/ in Union County, New Jersey, United States, is a Victorian cottage in the architectural style of Andrew Jackson Downing, the first American architect. The Crane-Phillips House is now a museum operated by the Cranford Historical Society that offers visitors a glimpse of what life was like for a modest family in the Victorian era of opulence. It illustrates the late 19th century as the era of invention and highlights inventions that changed everyday life for the average person by way of the house's second owners, the Phillips family. Henry J. Phillips, an American Civil War veteran of the 7th New York Militia, was one of the first inventors of the modern kitchen hood.U.S. Patent No. 572,715. https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=00572715 During the war, he had also patented a convertible tent and overcoat for military use.U.S. Patent No. 33,752. https://pdfpiw.uspto.gov/.piw?PageNum=0&docid=00033752 His brother, Charles Henry Phillips, was the inventor of Phillips' Milk of Magnesia. Read more on Wikipedia
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