Monongahela House — Pittsburgh students inspecting room occupied by President-elect Abraham Lincoln [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]
The Heinz History Center’s exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War and Lincoln Slept Here featured Lincoln’s bed and bedroom set from the Monongahela House, the downtown Pittsburgh hotel that hosted the president-elect en route to his inauguration on Feb. 14, 1861.

Monongahela House — Pittsburgh students inspecting room occupied by President-elect Abraham Lincoln [Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh]

The Heinz History Center’s exhibition Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War and Lincoln Slept Here featured Lincoln’s bed and bedroom set from the Monongahela House, the downtown Pittsburgh hotel that hosted the president-elect en route to his inauguration on Feb. 14, 1861.


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