After Lincoln was shot, doctors had soldiers carry him into the street in search of a house in which he would be more comfortable.
A man on the steps of the house of tailor William Petersen beckoned to them.
They took Lincoln into the first-floor bedroom and laid him on the bed – diagonally because of his unusual height.
Many people came to visit him throughout the night, before he died.
Lincoln died the next morning at 7:22 a.m.
The Petersen House was purchased by the U.S. government in 1896 as the "House Where Lincoln Died", being the federal government's first purchase of a historic home.

The National Park Service has operated it as a historic house museum since 1933, the rooms furnished as on the night Lincoln died.
After Lincoln was shot, doctors had soldiers carry him into the street in search of a house in which he would be more comfortable. A man on the steps of the house of tailor William Petersen beckoned to them. They took Lincoln into the first-floor bedroom and laid him on the bed – diagonally because of his unusual height. Many people came to visit him throughout the night, before he died. Lincoln died the next morning at 7:22 a.m.
The Petersen House was purchased by the U.S. government in 1896 as the "House Where Lincoln Died", being the federal government's first purchase of a historic home.
The National Park Service has operated it as a historic house museum since 1933, the rooms furnished as on the night Lincoln died.
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