Friday, September 16, 2011

Ben Franklin's house

Actually Ben Franklin's house is no longer there.  Since they don't have the actualplans, they won't rebuild it.  Philadelphia is very historically accurate :).  BUT, still there are some rental houses and printing equipment that were his.

Here the man is inking the printing press.
This is one of the rental houses he built, near his house.  It was three stories, very tall.  The yellow thing waaaay down there is a chair.
In his later years, as his health deteriorated, Ben Franklin traveled in a hand-carried, mini carraige, like this -
More from Philadelphia soon.

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