The Lincoln Home: Lincoln Home National Historic Site Historic Furnishings Report
Menz KB. 1983. The Lincoln Home: Lincoln Home National Historic Site Historic Furnishings Report. Historic Furnishing Reports. Springfield, Illinois
ADMINISTRATIVE DATA NAME, NUMBER, AND CLASSIFICATION OF STRUCTURE The Lincoln Home, Building No.1, First Order of Significance. LOCATION AND PROPOSED USE OF STRUCTURE The Lincoln Home is located on Eighth Street, Springfield, Illinoi s. It is furni shed and interpreted to lIappear preci sely as it did on the day Lincoln left to take up duties of the presidency in vJashington ll (Interpretive Prospectus, 1976, p. 10). PLANNING AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO FURNISHING THE STRUCTURE Bearss, Edwin C. Historic Structures Report: Lincoln Home National Historic Site. Denver, Colorado: Denver Service Center, National Park Service, 1973. Ryan, James. Final Interpretive Prospectus: Lincoln Home National Historic Site. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, 1976. SECTION A: DEFINITION OF INTERPRETIVE OBJECTIVES The fundamental interpretive objective of the Lincoln Home National Historic Site is to illuminate the life and character of Abraham Lincoln during the seventeen years that he lived in the Home, rather than to represent the everyday life of the period or to recapture the setting of a single event. More specifically, the Interpretive Prospectus (October 1976) for the Lineol n Home National Historic Site identifies four Interpretive Objectives for the area:
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- Published Report
- Authors
- Menz, Katherine
- Date of Issue
- 1983
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- HIST , LIHO
- Keywords
- Administration, Administrative, ehistory, furnishing, historical data, History, Household, Interpretation, occupancy