Brewster Chair
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A Brewster Chair is a style of turned chair made in mid-17th-century New England.
A 17th-century Brewster Chair
The Pilgrim Hall Museum owns the original Elder Brewster Chair and Peregrine White cradle.
The Henry Ford
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The Henry Ford is a history museum complex in Dearborn, Michigan, United States, within Metro Detroit. The museum collection contains the presidential limousine of John F. Kennedy, Abraham Lincoln's c
Brewster Chair
…after this piece. In the 1970s, Rhode Island sculptor Armand LaMontagne produced a notorious fake Brewster Chair that fooled the national experts at the Henry Ford Museum, which acquired the piece. Original Brewster Chair at the Pilgrim Hall Museum…
The museum clock tower. The building is a replica of Independence Hall in Philadelphia.
The Weiser Railroad's Torch Lake locomotive on the turntable in front of the roundhouse
Buckminster Fuller's prototype Dymaxion house, in the Henry Ford Museum
This 4-4-0 locomotive at the Henry Ford Museum was originally built in 1858 by Rogers Locomotive Works as the “Satilla” for the Atlantic & Gulf RR in Georgia. In 1924, Henry Ford had it restored in his Rouge Factory, and named it the “Sam Hill” in honor of an engineer that he admired as a boy. In 1929, the engine was renamed “The President” in honor of President Herbert Hoover, and it pulled Henry Ford, Thomas Edison and Hoover from Detroit to Dearborn, Michigan for the dedication ceremonies of the Henry Ford Museum.