Lincoln Home National Historic Site • Illinois

The two-story, tan Lincoln Home with a rainbow in the sky above it.

A guide leading a group into the Lincoln Home which has bunting on the front.

A bedroom with a patterned carpet and wallpaper, a large four poster bed, and a fireplace.

A room with patterned carpet and wallpaper, a fireplace, several wooden chairs, and decorations.

A red cart surrounded by pumpkins and hay bales with the Lincoln Home in the background.

A street covered in snow and lined with trees, buildings, and streetlamps.

A black and white image of a crowd of people standing in front of and around the Lincoln Home.

Pink and white magnolia flowers blooming on a tree.

Abraham Lincoln believed in the ideal that everyone in America should have the opportunity to improve their economic and social condition. Lincoln’s life was the embodiment of that idea. We know him as the sixteenth president but he was also a spouse, parent, and neighbor who experienced the same hopes, dreams, and challenges of life that are still experienced by many people today.

A rainbow over the Lincoln Home.
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Thousands of people visit Lincoln Home each year to go inside the only home that Abraham Lincoln ever owned.
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Abraham Lincoln's bedroom with a reproduction of the original wallpaper pattern on the walls.
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The Lincolns' sitting room where they would spend their evenings together as a family.
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Lincoln Home annual Halloween event.
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Lincoln Home neighborhood covered in snow and decorated for winter.
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In 1860, a political rally held in Springfield stopped in front of the Lincoln Home to show support for Abraham Lincoln's presidential campaign.
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