The man who electrified the world was rarely at Glenmont house, but his second wife Mina was. Today, it reveals much about the unseen domestic dynamics behind a great life
Glenmont, a red-brick, Queen Anne Revival house, sits nestled in the sylvan enclave of Llewellyn Park, a gated community in West Orange, New Jersey. Surrounded by well-tended lawns and specimen trees, the 29-room property evokes a sober piece of campus architecture — one half expects a robed don, lost in thought, to stroll by. And for nearly half a century, Glenmont was the home of one of the most febrile minds the world has ever seen: Thomas Alva Edison.
Inspired by the burgeoning home economics movement, she called herself a “home executive” and argued for a scientific approach to household management. “She was very much an advocate for elevating women’s domestic labour and explaining that it took as much executive thinking as a male counterpart might use in the business world,” says Beth Miller, longtime curator at Glenmont.
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