The Elihu Thomson House (built 1889) is a historic house located at 22 Monument Avenue, Swampscott, Massachusetts. It is a National Historic Landmark and currently serves as Swampscott Town Hall, it is right next to the public library and directly across from a Chabad Lubavich synagogue.
The house was designed by architect James Kelly for the noted inventor, electrical engineer, and industrialist Elihu Thomson who was, with Thomas Edison, co-founder of General Electric Company. The house was built with an observatory, no longer extant.
It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976.
Famous quotes containing the words thomson and/or house:
“If fancy then
Unequal fails beneath the pleasing task,
Ah, what shall language do?”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)
“Do not forsake your friend or the friend of your parent; do not go to the house of your kindred in the day of your calamity. Better is a neighbor who is nearby than kindred who are far away.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 27:10.