President Lincoln and Soldiers' Home National Monument
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| Location: | District of Columbia , United States | ||
| Specialty: | Summer home of Abraham Lincoln and other US presidents | ||
| Next city: | Washington, DC | ||
| Surface: | 9300 m² | ||
| Founding: | July 7, 2000 | ||
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President Lincoln and Soldiers 'Home National Monument or President Lincoln's Cottage at the Soldiers' Home is a national monument- type memorial in Washington, DC It was established by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and has been open to the public since February 2008 after renovations . The memorial is managed by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in conjunction with the Armed Forces Retirement Home and with advice from the National Park Service .
history
The house in the neo-Gothic style attributable to Victorian architecture was built in 1842/43 for the banker George Washington Riggs. In 1851 it became part of the newly established Armed Forces Retirement Home , a retirement home for homeless and disabled veterans of the Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848. It is located on a hill about 5 km northeast of the White House between two honorary cemeteries of the US Army .
James Buchanan was the first President to use the house as an official summer residence to escape the oppressive climate in the Potomac River valley . His successor Abraham Lincoln continued the tradition and spent the summers from 1862–64 in the building. The later presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and Chester A. Arthur also used the cottage.
On February 11, 1974, the house was listed as a listed building on the National Register of Historic Places . Today the building is mainly dedicated to the memory of Lincoln because it was here that he drafted the Emancipation Proclamation , the document for the abolition of slavery in the United States .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ US Soldiers' and Airmen's Home in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed August 4, 2017.