Illinois - Springfield

Lincoln Home

The pretty two-storey home of Abraham and Mary Lincoln at 8th and Jackson Streets, Springfield, was the only home the lawyer/president ever owned. He and his wife lived in the house between 1844 and 1861 when he was elected President. The home has been restored and stands as it was in 1860 in the midst of a four-block historic neighbourhood which the National Park Service is restoring. The neighbourhood, like the house, will also soon appear much as Lincoln would have remembered it.

Telephone: (217) 492 4241, ext. 221;

Website: www.nps.gov/liho;

Opening time: Daily 8.30am to 5pm;

Admission: Free, but tickets must be obtained in advance from the Lincoln Home Visitor Centre at 426 S. 7th Street. Tickets are issued on a first-come-first-served basis

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