Governor's Mansion

Price: $4.95
  

Stock #: 47781
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Springfield
State: Illinois (IL)
County: Sangamon
Publisher: H.N. Shonkwiler
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

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Jackson, Edwards, Fourth and Fifth Streets. The Governor's Mansion is a three-story white house of twenty-eight rooms, built of superior brick masonry, and located on a beautiful knoll in the heart of Springfield. The mansion has been the home of the Governors of the State of Illinois and a center of Springfield's social life since 1856. Lincoln watched the erection of the mansion and, in company with Mrs. Lincoln, attended several large parties there.

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