London, United Kingdom residence occupied by Benjamin Franklin
This article is about the London residence of Benjamin Franklin. For Franklin's residence site in Philadelphia, see Franklin Court. For the historic hotel in Philadelphia, see Ben Franklin House.
Benjamin Franklin House is a museum in a terraced Georgian house at 36 Craven Street, London, close to Trafalgar Square. It is the last-standing former residence of Benjamin Franklin, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. The house dates from c. 1730, and Franklin lived and worked there for sixteen years.[1][2] The museum opened to the public on 17 January 2006.[2] The chairman is American-British investment banker and philanthropist John Studzinski.[3]
The house is listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England for its historic association with Franklin.[4]
^Tom Huntington Archived 5 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine "Franklin's Last Home," American Heritage, April/May 2006.
^ abAttwooll, Jolyon (23 November 2011). "London in your lunch break: Benjamin Franklin's House". Telegraph. Retrieved 15 July 2016.
^Benjamin Franklin House – Governance Archived 14 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine. BenjaminFranklinHouse.org.
^Historic England, "36, Craven Street WC2 (1066930)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 5 March 2018
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