In North Grafton, Massachusetts, the former Willard family farmstead preserves the place where brothers Benjamin, Simon, Ephraim, and Aaron Willard combined farming with clockmaking in the eighteenth century. Built about 1718 and later enlarged as their business prospered, the house was where Simon Willard developed his first banjo clock, patented in 1802 as the Willard Patent Timepiece, before the family business shifted to Roxbury. Founded by collectors Dr. Roger W. Robinson and Imogene Robinson, the site now contains more than 80 Willard clocks, period-furnished rooms, and a reconstructed workshop, forming the world’s most comprehensive collection of Willard timepieces.

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts · USA