Reverend Lorenzo Langstroth, known as "The Father of American Beekeeping," lived in this simple two-story, eight-room Greek Revival cottage with his wife, Anne, and their three children from 1858 to 1887. In his garden workshop, he made experimental beehives, established an apiary, and on the ten acres surrounding his home grew buckwheat, clover, an apple orchard, and a "honey garden" of flowers. He imported Italian queen bees to improve native bees and shipped his queens to keepers across the United States and around the world. Born in Philadelphia on December 25, 1810, Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth was educated at Yale to be a clergyman and teacher, but became internationally famous as an inventor and author. Fascinated by honeybees from childhood, he discovered "bee space," an open space of not more than three-eighths of an inch that bees would not fill to bond their combs to hives. This led to the world's first moveable frame beehive, patented in 1852, which revolutionized beekeeping and the honey industry. His book, Langstroth on the Hive and Honeybee, published in 1853, offered practical advice on bee management and remains in use. He died in Dayton, Ohio, on October 6, 1895.