Elihu Thomson home and Erickson homes

Elihu Thomson, the founder of General Electric, came to the area in order to electrify the shoe factories in Lynn, Mass. This Georgian Revival house, built in 1889, had a a finely detailed exterior "with a railing on the flat hip roof surmounted by urns, broken scroll pedicments over the dormers, and a columned proticol entrance."--from Images of America : Swampscott, Turino and Mathias, 1996.

Thomson was a "fancier of astronomy" ... [and] used his observatory and telescope to make regular studies of the heavens above."--from Swampscott, Massachusetts : celebrating 150 years, 1852-2002, Swampscott Historical Commission, 2002

Distant exterior view of the residence of Elihu Thomson (foreground) and Erickson homes on Monument Avenue. The light-colored roof of Thomson's observatory is just visible to the right side of the house.

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Institution: Swampscott Public Library

Massachusetts -- Essex (county) -- Swampscott

22 Monument Avenue (Swampscott, Mass.)

1910

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Architecture, Domestic

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