http://www.springfieldrewind.com/lincoln-home-1890 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:06:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.springfieldrewind.com/lincoln-home-1890/comment-page-1#comment-16542 jmurphy Fri, 15 Apr 2011 01:01:49 +0000 http://new.springfieldrewind.com/lincoln-home-1890#comment-16542 When I left Springfield in 1955 the Lincoln home was a shabby yellow house on a busy street - closed, as I remember. When I returned to find the historic site and neighborhood I couldn't believe it. Wonderful transformation. When I left Springfield in 1955 the Lincoln home was a shabby yellow house on a busy street – closed, as I remember. When I returned to find the historic site and neighborhood I couldn’t believe it. Wonderful transformation.

]]> http://www.springfieldrewind.com/lincoln-home-1890/comment-page-1#comment-15694 Audrey Burtrum-Stanley Fri, 04 Mar 2011 16:28:44 +0000 http://new.springfieldrewind.com/lincoln-home-1890#comment-15694 I have a tremendous affection for this house and its former occupants. I first visited in 1969, when the structure was being 'loved to death'! The house had had so many visitors over the decades, it was lean'n and squeak'n as your trod the stairs or strolled certain areas of the wooden floors. A return visit - following the reconstruction with steel I-beams and modern building methods - has made this spot a marvelous place for today and assures its stability into the future. The addition of the nearby structures to the park-like setting, help set-the-neighborhood-atmosphere-of-long-ago. The current staff are extremely accurate in presenting an appropriately designed and decorated dwelling. I am proud to have donated a pair of items for permanent display there. I urge anyone who is interested in providing an historic-item-contribution to the Lincoln dwelling (which must meet their criteria and need) to contact the staff. Springfield should never loose sight of the fact 'The world loves this house and its history' and the community is fortunate to be the setting! I have a tremendous affection for this house and its former occupants. I first visited in 1969, when the structure was being ‘loved to death’! The house had had so many visitors over the decades, it was lean’n and squeak’n as your trod the stairs or strolled certain areas of the wooden floors. A return visit – following the reconstruction with steel I-beams and modern building methods – has made this spot a marvelous place for today and assures its stability into the future. The addition of the nearby structures to the park-like setting, help set-the-neighborhood-atmosphere-of-long-ago. The current staff are extremely accurate in presenting an appropriately designed and decorated dwelling. I am proud to have donated a pair of items for permanent display there. I urge anyone who is interested in providing an historic-item-contribution to the Lincoln dwelling (which must meet their criteria and need) to contact the staff. Springfield should never loose sight of the fact ‘The world loves this house and its history’ and the community is fortunate to be the setting!

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