Petersen House, 1980
This file appears in: Petersen House: Abraham Lincoln died in this house the morning after being shot across the street at Ford's Theatre.
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This file appears in: Petersen House: Abraham Lincoln died in this house the morning after being shot across the street at Ford's Theatre.
Petersen House: Abraham Lincoln died in this house the morning after being shot across the street at Ford's Theatre.
Located directly across the street from Ford's Theatre, the Petersen House was built in 1849. On April 14, 1875, doctors and soldiers rushed to find a comfortable place to tend to the dying President…