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Landscape Tour: Lincoln's Wild Home

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On this self guided, app based tour you will explore nine unique stops on the grounds of President Lincoln’s Cottage and the Armed Forces Retirement Home. The entire tour including Stop 9 and returning to the Visitor Education Center covers about one and a half miles total. As you explore Lincoln’s Wild Home, you will be invited to interact with the landscape as he and the generations who lived on this land before him may have been inspired to do.

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“I love the landscape and mindfulness tour. What a wonderful addition! We haven’t had the chance to visit the grounds, despite coming on several tours of the Cottage, so that was a treat. And the mindfulness and nature aspect was a surprising gem. I especially appreciated the integration of American Indian philosophy on nature–very important!”

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President Lincoln’s Cottage is a 501(c)(3) historic site and museum located in Northwest Washington, D.C. We provide interactive tours and exhibits, and host public and private events using Lincoln’s example to inspire visitors in their own path to greatness. Join us in learning and sharing brave ideas.

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President Lincoln 's Cottage is the most significant historic site directly associated with Lincoln's presidency aside from the White House. During the Civil War, Lincoln and his family resided here from June - November of 1862, 1863 and 1864. The president commuted daily by horseback or carriage 3 miles from the Soldiers' Home to the White House. It was during his first season at the Soldiers' Home that he created his revolutionary policy of emancipation. This National Monument was opened to the public for the first time in February 2008 after being restored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a private, non-profit organization. Today President Lincoln's Cottage gives Americans an intimate, never-before-seen view of Abraham Lincoln's presidency and family life.

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• Constructed: 1842
• Address: 140 Rock Creek Church Road NW Washington, DC 20011
• Hours Daily 9:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
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President Lincoln's Cottage is the most significant historic site directly associated with Lincoln's presidency aside from the White House. Located on an uplifting hilltop in Northwest Washington, D.C., the Cottage is where Lincoln lived for over a quarter of his presidency and made some of his most critical decisions.

During the Civil War, the Lincolns chose to move their family from the White House to the Cottage three summers in a row, in the midst of a war that threatened the country they held so dear. While in residence at the Cottage, Lincoln visited with wounded soldiers, spent time with self-emancipated men, women and children, and developed the Emancipation Proclamation. His experience of being surrounded by the human cost of war here undoubtedly impacted his thinking and strengthened his resolve to challenge the status quo.

Today, the site offers an intimate, never before seen view of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and private life, and new perspectives on the influential ideas Lincoln developed while living there. Through multimedia-enhanced guided tours, innovative programs, and award-winning exhibits, visitors experience an authentic, tangible connection to Lincoln’s legacy in this historic setting.

President Lincoln’s Cottage is leased by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and operated by President Lincoln’s Cottage at the Soldiers’ Home.

“If my name ever goes into history, it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.” Abraham Lincoln, 1863

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Reproduction of the desk that President Lincoln brought from the White House to the Cottage when he and his family lived during the summer months of his presidency.

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In President Lincoln's library, visitors learn about the documents and books Lincoln read while staying at this summer retreat during his presidency.

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The life-size bronze statue of President Lincoln and his horse highlights Lincoln’s daily commute from the Cottage to the White House.

The veranda was often used by the Lincolns to take in the cool breezes that could not be felt in the hot and humid downtown Washington.

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Lincoln was not the last president to take advantage of the healthy breezes at the cottage.  President Hayes spent the summers of 1877 to 1880 at the house. President Chester A. Arthur stayed there during renovations at the White House in the winter of 1882 and spent summers there as well. The significance of President Lincoln’s cottage faded from memory after the mid-20th century, while the Old Soldier's Home continued to adapt the house for new uses.  In 2001, the Soldiers’ Home officially became the Washington Unit of the Armed Forces Retirement Home.  It is the nation’s only retirement community for Regular Army and Air Force enlisted personnel, warrant officers, and disabled soldiers and airmen.  The Secretary of the Interior designated the U.S. Soldiers’ and Airmen’s Home, consisting of the cottage and the other three buildings constructed before the Civil War, as a National Historic Landmark in 1973.  President Clinton declared the President Lincoln and Soldiers’ Home (the cottage and 2.3 surrounding acres) a National Monument in 2000.  The National Trust for Historic Preservation began a thorough restoration of the cottage in 2001 and opened President Lincoln's Cottage to the public for the first time in history on President's Day in 2008.

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President Lincoln’s Cottage is an historic site and museum located in the Petworth neighborhood in northwest Washington, D.C. President Lincoln’s Cottage first opened to the public in February 2008, after an eight-year capital restoration project under the auspices of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. It is the only place the public can experience the history of Abraham Lincoln’s public and private life where he lived and worked for over a quarter of his presidency.

While in residence at the Cottage, Lincoln visited with wounded soldiers, spent time with self-emancipated men, women and children, and developed the Emancipation Proclamation. The human cost of the Civil War surrounded him, undoubtedly impacted his thinking, and strengthened his resolve to challenge the status quo. Through innovative guided tours, exhibits and programs, we use Lincoln’s example to inspire visitors to take their own path to greatness, and preserve this place as an authentic, tangible connection to the past and a beacon of hope for all who take up Lincoln’s unfinished work.

Mailing Address: 3700 North Capitol Street NW, #558 Washington, DC 20011

Physical Address: 140 Rock Creek Church Rd NW Washington, DC 20011

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An intimate guided tour through Abraham Lincoln's seasonal home at the Soldiers’ Home, where he spent a quarter of his presidency. 

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“ It's on the campus of the Armed Forces Retirement Home so you'll need to purchase a ticket beforehand to get through security. ” in 8 reviews

“ Instead, the guide discussed the ideas behind some of Lincoln's major acts, especially the Emancipation Proclamation . ” in 9 reviews

“ The docent led tour lasted about an hour and gave unique insight into Abraham Lincoln 's character. ” in 5 reviews

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Paul was such a great tour guide. He was very knowledgeable, energetic and knew his history! The mansion is located outside DC and on the site of a military retirement home. Beautiful grounds, nice gift shop, great artifacts, overall a great visit.

DC has so many extraordinary free museums, so I'm always skeptical of a museum that charges a fee. Lincoln's Cottage, located not too far from the Georgia Ave/Petworth Metro stop, definitely does not match the value of a free DC museum, even while charging a fee. Lincoln's Cottage is located in a compound that includes a veterans' home, a charter school, and a couple residences. Visitors are limited to very few areas, although there is little to no signage telling you where you can and can't go. One of the most important boundaries had a sign that was knocked over and upside-down. Not too helpful! Our experience began negatively with a less than kind check-in with a security guard at the gate. While the staff inside the museum were friendly, the tour of the Lincoln Cottage was lackluster. There was very little furniture, not much to share, and a bizarre béninois art exhibit that added little to no value for the experience. The exhibit included some weird revisionist stuff about January 6th, I'll leave it at that... The one place where this museum excelled was the child loss exhibit in the main visitor center. It was extremely powerful and well done. Child loss is a devastating reality that too many face, and this museum really brought depth and warmth into such a sad area. Overall, this museum felt like it was almost designed to keep visitors away. I wouldn't recommend this museum, especially in a city as culturally rich as DC.

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One of the more beautiful spots in DC. I did the audio landscape tour and docent led guided tour-both were superb! The audio landscape tour was both informative and meditative at the same time. The docent led tour lasted about an hour and gave unique insight into Abraham Lincoln's character. The staff were friendly and helpful. I highly recommend coming here.

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This should have been a great visit and just the kind of thing up my alley. Tickets were required in advanced and were on a timed basis. When the tour started, our guide was in torn jeans and a skeleton t-shirt, which felt way too casual. She obviously was a tour guide for field trips with small children. First, we went to a room and wrote on a white board a time we were brave. Then she explained to us what slavery was. To a group of mostly adults. The house itself was either not decorated or very sparse. When asked, she said no photographs of the interior when Lincoln was there existed. That doesn't mean you can't furnish the space with period-appropriate furniture. There were some multimedia parts which was nice to hear, but the tour guide had a set speech, couldn't/wouldn't take questions, and you really start to feel the boredom when someone has a memorized script designed for children in an empty room with nothing to look at. I love touring historical spaces, and this was the first one I truly felt bored because there was nothing to engage with. There was an exhibit on Lincoln at the visitor center which was nice to look through. I wish there was more information on the space itself or other presidents who used this as a home away from home (before Camp David was a thing). But it was less about the cottage and how it was used over time and more just about Lincoln's bravery and I think it could have had both elements in it. If this place was free/cheap I wouldn't have minded, but $15 a person is more on the pricey side when there's so many great things to see in DC. The gift shop was nice though. I don't think this place was worth the visit.

Part of this may be my fault, part of it may not be my fault. In the end, we showed up not realizing we had to be part of the tour. We showed up, we were greeted by security and told they had a large school group coming in. To me, that meant nothing, so we hurried inside, went to the registration area, and we were told that we couldn't go inside of the Cottage because school tour was starting in 15-minutes. I asked about doing a self-guided tour, as I would have been out of there and I was told that was not offered, but I could look at a few of the rooms within the Visitor Center. Overall, the grounds are nice, I think communication is horrible. If you are going make sure you can actually be part of a tour before you waste the time going there.

This tour was amazing and full of so much information regarding Abraham Lincoln and his legacy. Our tour guides were so knowledgeable about the history of the cottage and we were so delighted to know that it was also wheelchair accessible for those who needed a mobility option. I would recommend coming to visit the cottage and to explore the era of history that once housed one of our most memorable former Presidents.

Everyone who works there take extreme pride in their work and make it an amazing tour.

I went to an event being sponsored on the grounds of Lincoln's Cottage. I had no idea this hidden gem even existed. While I did not have a chance to tour the cottage itself, I look forward to going back one day to take in the full experience. Now to be clear, Lincoln is a complicated man who is no great liberator (as he is falsely portrayed) and who is not one I admire in any meaningful way. But I look forward to unpacking his complicated legacy on a future visit.

Imagine sitting at your desk, looking south and seeing your former country man who was in open rebellion against the Union in order to protect slavery. That was Lincoln's view as he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Opened to the public in 2008, President Lincoln's Cottage is located on the Armed Forces Retirement Home and is a gem to our country's heritage. Lincoln spent a quarter of his presidency at the cottage, commuting daily and in the summers; it was the nineteenth century Camp David. The house was built in 1842 for the founder of Riggs Bank. He sold it in 1851 as a home to disabled and retired veterans, mostly from the Mexican American War. The government built the Soldier's Asylum, soon to be Old Soldier's Home. In 1861 after his inauguration, Lincoln visited the Cottage and was enamored with it. It was here in 1862 that he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. Every day Lincoln could stand on the South facing porch or sit in his second floor window and look at Virginia, visible from the property. Every day he looked at his enemy and knew that if the Union failed the United States would end at that horizon; Manifest Destiny be dammed. With that constant reminder, he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1863 he wrote portions of the Gettysburg address after the Confederacy marched to the west of the property. Lincoln was escorted by about 40 soldiers on horseback when he went to and from the Executive Mansion, about three miles south of the Cottage. At the time DC was really a swamp and the main water source of the White House was the Potomac, which was used by a latrine by the US Army; giving rise to bouts of typhoid. In one of those outbreaks the Lincolns lost a son. The cottage was on higher ground giving it plenty of breeze in the Summer. On April 13, 1865, Lincoln visited the Cottage for the last time. The next day John Wilkes Booth assassinated one of our greatest presidents in cold blood. The Cottage was used by President Arthur and Hayes. After that it was used as an infirmary until in 2000 President Clinton declared the Cottage a National Monument. After you pass the gate the parking is on the left and free. You check into the main visitor center where there is a small exhibit about Lincoln, a Gift Shop and bathrooms. The Cottage is across the road.

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President Lincoln's Cottage is a beautiful historic site, a must see! You can feel the soul of Lincoln in this home, its like going back in time and walking in the very private place where Mr.Lincoln often spend some of his most wonderful and difficult times in his life. Beautiful place!

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Located on a picturesque hilltop on the grounds of the historic Soldiers' Home in Northwest Washington, DC, President Lincoln's Cottage offers a unique, historic, and award-winning setting for special events. This beloved home was used by the Lincoln family and served as an important entertaining venue during the Civil War. While in residence, Lincoln visited with wounded soldiers, spent time with self-emancipated men women and children, and developed the Emancipation Proclamation. Today, the Cottage, its surrounding grounds, and an array of adjacent historic buildings are available to the public for the first time. Proceeds from your event help preserve this National Monument and National Historic Landmark. Our offerings include ample free parking, handicap accessibility, museum staff/event coordination, and discounts for nonprofit and government groups.

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‘The Lincoln shiver’: a visit to the Soldiers’ Home, a less-known Washington gem

The house Abraham Lincoln used to escape the White House exerts unusual power, 160 years after the Gettysburg Address

W hen Joe Biden seeks release from Washington pressures, he goes to his house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware . Donald Trump, of course, had Mar-a-Lago in Florida and even Richard Nixon had the “Western White House”, in San Clemente, California . Presidents often have places to go to escape.

Abraham Lincoln needed an escape more than anyone but his bolt hole was closer to home: a cottage at the Soldiers’ Home, on a hill north of the White House in Washington DC itself. It’s still there, a lesser-known historical site in the capital.

Callie Hawkins, chief executive of President Lincoln’s Cottage , a national monument since 2000, says: “At the height of the civil war, some of Lincoln’s close friends suggested he take a break, go somewhere else. And he said, ‘Three weeks would do me no good. This follows me wherever I go.’

“It would be natural to think of this place as a retreat of some kind. But in many ways, this place brought him closer to the war. He was surrounded by veterans who were wounded. At that time, they lived in the building next door. Just in front of us, about 200 yards away, is the first national cemetery. And then from the other side of the house, he could have looked out on to Maryland and Virginia, both slave-holding states. And so it was really a constant reminder, being out here, of reality.

“We’ll walk up to the statue, because I want to see how you stand up to Lincoln. You’re pretty tall yourself.”

I’m 6ft 4in but in his famous hat, Lincoln has me matched. The bronze, by Ivan Schwartz and showing the 16th president with the horse he rode to and from the White House each day in the hot months – June to November – was installed in 2008.

“It’s different in purpose to the Lincoln Memorial ” on the National Mall, Hawkins says. “We wanted to push back against that idea that Lincoln can only be viewed from afar, as a figure larger than life, on a throne in a temple. Here, you can walk up and look him in the eye. And this is a view that many people who were part of this community, on the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home, would have had.”

The statue is the most obvious manifestation of Lincoln at the Soldiers’ Home. But his presence is evoked elsewhere.

From the terrace, where Lincoln played checkers with Tad, his son, visitors can look out as Lincoln did, down over Washington, to the Capitol, or out to Virginia and Maryland. Inside, the house is sparsely furnished, without attempt to recreate its look in Lincoln’s day. The result is strongly evocative. With the shutters closed, the study where Lincoln worked is dark. Next door, the drawing room is light.

“It’s pretty magical,” Hawkins says. “There’s this thing that happens to a lot of people when they come in the cottage. It’s one of those sensations you can’t quite describe, but we have done our best and call it the ‘Lincoln shiver’.

“It’s this full-body sensation as you are standing in this place and moving throughout these rooms, that Lincoln did the same at one of the most pivotal moments in American history. Added to that is that it’s a home, and homes are our most intimate spaces. You can just imagine Lincoln in his night shirt, or pajamas and bedroom slippers, moving about these grounds.”

Hawkins describes one such appearance by Lincoln, during an evening visit from George Borrett, a British traveler, in 1864 .

“They brought them into this room and told them to have a seat. A few minutes later, Lincoln came walking through those folding doors.”

I turn, see the doors, and there it is: the Lincoln shiver.

There are other reasons for it. Lincoln and his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, grieved here, after the death of their son Willie at the White House in 1862. Hawkins now oversees a striking exhibition about the Lincolns and grief, meant to help those grieving today. Other projects also seek to apply Lincoln’s legacy to modern problems. In January, Prison Reimagined will show portraits of presidents by incarcerated artists.

But Hawkins’s evocation of Lincoln, in the drawing room he used, remains extremely powerful, conveying the simple humanity for which Lincoln has long been loved but also his place as perhaps the most powerful expressor – and expression – of the American democratic ideal.

“His hair was ruffled, his eyes were sleepy, and his feet were enveloped in carpet slippers. He was essentially in his pajamas to greet people he had no idea were coming and who he did not know. Borrett said, naturally enough, the president asked about their travels. And then President Lincoln asked what I consider to be a really strange question. ‘What do you think of our great country?’

“This was a country that in 1864, at the time of their visit, was literally at war with itself. And Lincoln asked a stranger, ‘What do you think of our great country?’ It’s such a such an interesting question. I think it really demonstrates Lincoln’s love for this country, his hope for this country, and what he thought was possible.”

The conversation with Borrett happened the year after Lincoln wrote the Gettysburg Address: a short speech, at the site of the greatest civil war battle, that became a foundational text . Lincoln delivered it 160 years ago today.

My visit to President Lincoln’s Cottage is somewhat less momentous, an hour or so’s respite from reporting the politics of a country as divided as at any time since that civil war. But for those of us who ponder such problems daily, Lincoln’s conversation with George Borrett has more to offer.

“Lincoln started to talk about democracy,” Hawkins says. “This country being the last best hope of Earth. That if democracy didn’t take hold here, it didn’t have a chance anywhere.”

President Lincoln’s Cottage is open daily , with hourly guided tours

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You can learn about the history of Moscow with a trip to Red Square. Experience the area's fascinating museums and acclaimed theater scene.

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Visit the most iconic square in Russia, which is bordered by many of the city’s most famous landmarks.

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GoodTime is one of the top choices for your stay based on our traveler data, and this 3.5-star hotel offers a restaurant and free parking. It's located just a short 0.9 mi (1.4 km) from Puppet Theatre Flint. Other good choices within 5 miles include Skazka Vostoka - Hostel and Lecco Art-Hotel .

One of the top choices for your stay is Lecco Art-Hotel , located a short 0.4 mi (0.7 km) from Mytishchi Arena, and this 3.5-star hotel offers a restaurant and free parking. Skazka Vostoka - Hostel , located just 0.8 mi (1.3 km) away, is another good option for your stay.

Visitors can enjoy all that Mytishchi has to offer including the hockey games, cafes, and theaters. Tourists can also enjoy the city's churches, monuments, and beaches. In Mytishchi, there are 14 hotels and other accommodations to choose from. Find out more about Mytishchi .

Cultural venues include Puppet Theatre Flint , Ognivo Mytishchi Municipal Puppet Theater , and Mytischi Historical Art Museum . A couple of additional sights to add to your agenda are XL Family Outlet and Mytishchi Arena . Check out what more to see and do in Expedia's Mytishchi guide .

If you'd like to explore more of the area, hop aboard a train from Mytishchi Station, Mytishchi Tayninskaya Station, or Mytishchi Perlovskaya Station. If you want to venture out around the area, you may want a rental car in Mytishchi for your journey.

The hottest months are usually July and August with an average temp of 63°F, while the coldest months are January and February with an average of 22°F. The snowiest months in Mytishchi are December, February, January, and November, with each month seeing an average of 20 inches of snowfall.

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• Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ
• Mytishchi Museum of Nature Protection
• Fest Mytishchi Drama and Comedy Theater
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• Crocus City Hall
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• Crocus Expo Center
• State Historical Museum
• Armoury Chamber
• Arbat Street

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