| Ford's Theatre National Historic Site | | IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape) | | | | Location | Washington, D.C., USA | | Coordinates | 38°53′48″N 77°1′33″W / 38.89667, -77.02583 | | Area | 0.29 acre (1200 m²) | | Established | February 12, 1932 | | Total visitation | 856,079 (in 2005) | | Governing body | National Park Service | Ford's Theatre at 511 10th Street, NW, Washington, D.C. is an active theatre in Washington DC, United States, used for various performances. The theatre became well known when it became the site of the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. After being shot, he was carried across the street to the Petersen House where he died the next morning. The theatre and house are preserved together as Ford's Theatre National Historic Site. The World Conservation Union or International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) is an international organization dedicated to natural resource conservation. ...
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Ford's Theatre in the 19th century The site was originally a house of worship, constructed in 1833 as the First Baptist Church of Washington. In 1861, after the congregation relocated to a newly built structure, John T. Ford bought the former church and renovated it into a theatre. He first called it Ford's Athenaeum. It was gutted by fire in 1862, and was rebuilt, opening the following year as Ford's New Theatre. Image File history File links Fordstheater. ...
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John T. Ford John Thomson Ford (April 16, 1829 – March 14, 1894) was a 19th-century American theatre manager. ...
Just five days after General Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House, Lincoln sat in the "State Box" watching Our American Cousin. A well-known actor, John Wilkes Booth, desperate to aid the dying Confederacy, stepped into the box and shot Lincoln in the head. He then jumped onto the stage, and cried out "Sic semper tyrannis" (some heard "The South is avenged!") just before escaping through the alley. // This article is about the Confederate general. ...
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John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865) was an American actor from Maryland, who fatally shot President of the United States Abraham Lincoln at Fords Theatre in Washington, D.C. on April 14, 1865. ...
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The United States Government seized the theatre, with Congress paying Ford $100,000 in compensation, and an order was issued forever prohibiting its use as a place of public amusement. The theatre was eventually taken over by the U.S. military and served as the home of the records of the War Department records on the first floor, the Library of the Surgeon General's Office on the second floor, and the Army Medical Museum, during the period 1866-1887. In 1887 the medical uses were eliminated and it became a War Department clerk's office. The front part of the building collapsed on June 9, 1893 and killed 22 of those clerks, injuring another 68. This led some to believe that the former church turned theater and storeroom was cursed. The building was repaired and used as a government warehouse until 1931. It languished for another 30 years until Congress approved funds for its restoration, which was completed in December 1967. Since 1970, Ford's Theatre has been both an active theater and a historic site remembering the assassination of the 16th U.S. President. The museum beneath the theatre contains portions of the Olroyd Collection of Lincolniana. On display are multiple items related to the assassination, including the Derringer pistol used to carry out the shooting, Booth's diary, and the original door to Lincoln's theatre box. In addition, some of Lincoln's family items, his coat (without the blood stained pieces), some statues of Lincoln, and some large portraits of the president, are on display in the museum. Image File history File linksMetadata Lincolnassassination. ...
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Henry Reed Rathbone (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was present at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and was sitting with his fiancée, Clara Harris, next to the President and his wife at the time of its occurence. ...
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Petersen House
The bed Abraham Lincoln died upon at Petersen House, now located at the Chicago Historical Society.
The room Abraham Lincoln died in at Petersen House.
Abraham Lincoln's box at Ford's theatre as it appears today.
Ford's Theatre located on 10th Street NW — a historic landmark in a neighborhood that is undergoing gentrification with new condos and office buildings. Attendants, including Dr. Charles Leale, carried the President onto 10th street. The doctor decided to take him to Petersen's boarding house across the street. The streets were extremely crowded with people, because of the uproar. A captain cleared the way to the brick federal style rowhouse. A boarder, Henry Safford, noticed what was going on and stood on the front steps crying, "Bring him in here, bring him in here!" Then he was taken into the bedroom in the rear of the parlors and placed on a bed that was not long enough for him. Mrs. Lincoln was escorted across the street by Clara Harris, who had been in the box during the shooting, and whose fiancée, Henry Rathbone, had been stabbed by Booth during the assassination. Rathbone, bleeding severely from the knife wound in his arm, collapsed due to loss of blood after arriving at the Petersen House. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 161 KB) Summary The bed Abraham Lincoln died upon at Petersen House Image released under GFDL with authors permission. ...
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Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 904 KB) Summary Fords Theatre located on 10th Street NW in Washington, D.C. — a historic landmark in a neighborhood that is undergoing gentrification with new condos and office buildings. ...
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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was the First Lady of the United States when her husband, Abraham Lincoln, served as the sixteenth President, from 1861 until 1865. ...
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Henry Reed Rathbone (July 1, 1837 – August 14, 1911) was present at the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and was sitting with his fiancée, Clara Harris, next to the President and his wife at the time of its occurence. ...
During the night and early morning, military guards patrolled outside to prevent onlookers from coming inside the house. A parade of government officials and physicians was allowed to come inside and pay respects to the unconscious President. Physicians continually removed blood clots which formed over the wound and poured out the excess brain fluid and brain matter from where the bullet had entered Lincoln's head in order to relieve pressure on the brain. However, the external and internal hemorrhaging continued throughout the night. Lincoln died in the house on April 15, 1865, at 7:22 a.m., at age 56. Among the attending physicians was Anderson Ruffin Abbott, a black, Canadian-educated doctor who later wrote “Some recollections of Lincoln’s assassination". April 15 is the 105th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (106th in leap years). ...
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Administrative history The theater was authorized for federal purchase on April 7, 1866. The Petersen House was authorized as the House Where Lincoln Died on June 11, 1896. Both structures were transferred from the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933. They were combined as Ford's Theatre National Historic Site on June 23, 1970, which is currently administered as part of National Mall and Memorial Parks April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). ...
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National Mall and Memorial Parks (also known as National Capital Parks-Central) is an administrative unit of the National Park Service encompassing many national memorials and other areas in Washington, D.C. They include: African American Civil War Memorial Constitution Gardens East Potomac Park Fords Theatre National Historic Site...
The building has gone through a few name changes. It was designated the Lincoln Museum on February 12, 1932, then redesignated Ford's Theatre (Lincoln Museum) on April 14, 1965. February 12 is the 43rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
Year 1932 (MCMXXXII) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1932 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
April 14 is the 104th day of the year (105th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 261 days remaining. ...
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The theatre was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. A typical plaque showing entry on the National Register of Historic Places. ...
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See also Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historic Site preserves two farm sites where Abraham Lincoln lived as a child. ...
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial preserves the southern Indiana farm where Abraham Lincoln lived from 1816 to 1830. ...
Lincoln Home National Historic Site Lincoln Home National Historic Site preserves President Abraham Lincolns Springfield, Illinois home and four-block historic district surrounding the home. ...
Abraham Lincolns tomb at Oak Ridge Cemetery. ...
The monument which is in the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential Memorial built to honor 16th President Abraham Lincoln. ...
The faces of (left to right) George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln Mount Rushmore National Memorial, located in Keystone, South Dakota, memorializes the birth, growth, preservation and development of the United States of America. ...
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum looks at the life of the 16th U.S. President, Abraham Lincoln, and the course of the American Civil War. ...
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