The friend I borrowed the camera from is also the friend I went to Springfield, Illinois with during spring break, so while I was uploading my apartment pictures I stole her pictures of Springfield as well. Springfield might as well be called Lincoln town. This is a statue of Mary and Abe Lincoln and one of their sons in front of his old law offices. There's another statue of another son running away across the square (that's who the little boy is waving at).
This was the Lincoln home for 8 years. Springfield has set aside four city blocks and preserved many of the homes there, so you are not just seeing the house, but what the neighborhood would have looked like. Please note the red covered wagon in front of the house (ok, that was only there because there were a bunch of workers there cutting down a diseased tree across the street. Otherwise everything was mid-1850s-ish).
This is one of the bedrooms. What really struck me is that none of the furniture seemed big enough to accommodate a man as tall as Lincoln was. How was he ever comfortable in his own home? Also, they liked crazy busy wallpaper.
This is the Lincoln tomb. It is ginormous. If you look closely you can see that the nose of that bust in front is lighter than the rest of the statue. I'm pretty sure that's from people rubbing it. Do you think they were rubbing it for luck? What sort of luck do they think Lincoln's nose brings?
This is where Lincoln is actually buried. You go into the tomb and it has a bunch of statues of Lincoln, and then finally this room. His wife and three of his sons are buried here as well
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This was the Lincoln home for 8 years. Springfield has set aside four city blocks and preserved many of the homes there, so you are not just seeing the house, but what the neighborhood would have looked like. Please note the red covered wagon in front of the house (ok, that was only there because there were a bunch of workers there cutting down a diseased tree across the street. Otherwise everything was mid-1850s-ish).
This is one of the bedrooms. What really struck me is that none of the furniture seemed big enough to accommodate a man as tall as Lincoln was. How was he ever comfortable in his own home? Also, they liked crazy busy wallpaper.
This is the Lincoln tomb. It is ginormous. If you look closely you can see that the nose of that bust in front is lighter than the rest of the statue. I'm pretty sure that's from people rubbing it. Do you think they were rubbing it for luck? What sort of luck do they think Lincoln's nose brings?
This is where Lincoln is actually buried. You go into the tomb and it has a bunch of statues of Lincoln, and then finally this room. His wife and three of his sons are buried here as well.
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