Watercolour of one of the most simple houses of the most famous man.
 
Benjamin Franklin House is a small historic house museum at 36 Craven Street, London WC2N 5NF, near Charing Cross and Trafalgar Square. It occupies the world’s only surviving former residence of Benjamin Franklin, where he lived and worked for roughly sixteen years, from 1757 to 1775.
 
The Georgian townhouse is particularly interesting because it was not simply a residence: Franklin used London as his base while serving as a colonial agent, scientist, printer, political thinker and diplomat. The house also has an unusual medical history. Franklin’s landlord, Margaret Stevenson, shared the property with her son-in-law William Hewson, an anatomist whose activities included anatomical experiments. 
 
interesting facts...
During restoration work at 36 Craven Street in 1997–98, builders uncovered a pit beneath the floor of what had originally been the house’s garden. It was approximately one metre wide and one metre deep and contained more than 1,200 fragments of human bone. The remains were initially reported to the police because of their disturbing appearance. Over 15 bodies were found and assumed to belong to Hewson who likely paid grave robbers to steal them from their graves!