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B.F. Harris, II House, Champaign, Illinois - a selection of images
Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 3 (1855-1861)
Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 1 (1844-1846)
Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 2 (1846-1854)
Mouse Nest, recovered from Lincoln Home restoration
B.F. Harris, II House, Champaign, Illinois - a selection of images
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Different views of the B.F. Harris II House.
Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 3 (1855-1861)
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By 1855, the Lincoln home, little changed from the cottage purchased twelve years earlier, proved to be too small for the growing family. Lincoln hired local builders, Hannon and Ragsdale, to remodel the home. They removed the roofs and raised the house from one-and-one-half to two full stories. When the work was completed, Mary wrote to her sister, Emilie Todd Helm, "You wi...
Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 1 (1844-1846)
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Episcopal clergyman Charles Dresser married Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd on the evening of November 4, 1842. Eighteen months later on May 2, 1844, Dresser sold his house at Eighth and Jackson Streets to the Lincolns. The Lincolns then moved into the only home they would ever own. The purchase price was $1,500, consisting of $1,200 in cash plus a downtown lot and building wo...
Model of the Lincoln Home, Stage 2 (1846-1854)
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On June 11, 1850, Lincoln wrote to Nathaniel Hay, a Springfield contractor, describing a brick retaining wall he wanted built: "I wish to build a front fence, on a brick foundation, at my house. I therefore shall be obliged, if you will, as soon as possible, deliver me brick of suitable quality, and sufficient number to build such a foundation, fifty feet long
Mouse Nest, recovered from Lincoln Home restoration
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