By George Wellman
Just when we think we have seen or read everything about President Lincoln during his bicentennial birth year, another discovery is made. This time it’s President Lincoln’s likeness on a tree trunk near President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home. The tree is located south of the Cottage in an area of the Armed [...]
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October 13, 2009
An Argument for Moving the Cottage, 1903
By Erin Carlson Mast
The National Trust for Historic Preservation assumed stewardship of the Cottage in 2000, carefully restored it, and open it to the public in 2008. That act of saving the Cottage is now well documented and was carried out with the blessings of the Armed Forces Retirement Home, the campus in northwest Washington, D.C. where the [...]
January 30, 2009
Students Research the Soldiers’ Home National Cemetery
By Erin Carlson Mast
In 2004, President Lincoln’s Cottage formed a partnership with high school history teacher Paul LaRue of the Washington Senior High School in Washington Court House, Ohio. LaRue’s Research History students had recently completed an extensive research project on an historic Ohio cemetery, and were looking for a new project. Staff members at the Cottage were [...]
December 15, 2008
Ho-Ho-Holiday Reception
By Leslie Bouterie
On Friday, December 12, the staff at President Lincoln’s Cottage, a National Trust Historic Site, hosted a holiday reception for the residents and staff of the Armed Forces Retirement Home (the campus on which the Cottage is located). The Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center, bedecked with holiday wreaths, garlands, and bows, was [...]
May 10, 2008
Tip of the Week: Researching the Soldiers’ Home
Occasionally we receive requests for access to the Armed Forces Retirement Home (aka Soldiers’ Home)archives. While we, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a non-profit organization, have an agreement with the Home to steward President Lincoln’s Cottage, we are not their repository for archival materials.
Since the Armed Forces Retirement Home is a federal agency, their records are housed [...]
October 5, 2007
Residents of The “Soldiers’ Home”
by Matt Ringelstetter
As much time we spend here talking about President Lincoln, it’s important to remember that other people have lived on the grounds of what is now known as the Armed Forces Retirement Home, an independent federal agency. For the past 150 years, the Soldiers’ Home has provided a comfortable place to live for [...]
