The home eventually became the first house museum in the U.S. to honor a First Lady, and it is still open to the public today. Gwen Thompson, executive director of the Mary Todd Lincoln House ...

On his way to Washington D.C. after being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, Abraham Lincoln, his wife, Mary Todd, and their sons stopped at Mary Todd's family home. The visit makes for ...

“We are extremely pleased with the outcome,” said Gwen Thompson, director of the Mary Todd Lincoln House and executive director of the Kentucky Mansions Preservation Foundation, which ...

On February 20, 1862, 11-year-old Willie Lincoln died in the White House after battling typhoid fever for weeks. The boy’s death devastated both his parents, but Mary Todd Lincoln’s grief was ...