Menlo Park, New Jersey

Now and Then

A look at the location of Thomas Edison's laboratory

This series of pages looks at Menlo Park in the year 2000. Compare the area today with the old images from Edison's time. Maps and photos illustrate the changes that have taken place in the time since Edison invented a whole new world.

Edison moved his laboratory to Orange, NJ after his first wife died in the mid 1880's. The Menlo Park site was used for a variety of things by local residents, but the buildings began to deteriorate. Here's how it looked in 1911:

Henry Ford salvaged parts of the Menlo Park complex during the 1920's. He re-created the Menlo Park scene in Greenfield Village, Dearborn, Michigan.

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