AS ANNE KEIGHER, AN ARCHITECT deeply involved with the London house Benjamin Franklin called home for almost 16 years, shows me around it, she points out a supporting pillar in the basement. "This original pier needed new concrete footing poured beneath it, so we were digging down to shore ...
Franklin, when he went to London in 1764, confidently expected to return in the following year; but he was destined to leave England till ten years later, and then with the depressing suspicion that the resources of diplomacy were exhausted. Meantime he remitted no effort to find some middle...
Benjamin FranklinWilliam HewsonCraven StreetAnatomy SchoolWilliam HewsonRenovation of the house in London where Benjamin Franklin lived has led to the discovery of the remains of a late eighteenth-century anatomy school. Investigations by bioarchaeologists from the Institute are revealing William Hewsons ...