Benjamin Franklin House
London, United Kingdom residence occupied by Benjamin Franklin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]