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Joseph Priestley House

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Oxygen Day at Joseph Priestley House

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Joseph Priestley Discovers Oxygen

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Interesting Joseph Priestley Facts

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Joseph Priestley biography

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NCPA Media Presents: Halloween historical cemetery tour at the Joseph Priestly House Museum

The Joseph Priestley House was the American home of 18th-century British theologian, Dissenting clergyman, natural philosopher, educator, and political theorist Joseph Priestley (1733–1804) from 1798 until his death. Located in Northumberland, Pennsylvania, the house, which was designed by Priestley's wife Mary, is Georgian with Federalist accents. The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) operated it as a museum dedicated to Joseph Priestley from 1970 to August 2009, when it closed due to low visitation and budget cuts. The house reopened in October 2009, still owned by the PHMC but operated by the Friends of Joseph Priestley House (FJPH).
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