Petersen House
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For other buildings with the same or a similar name, see Petersen House (disambiguation) and Peterson House (disambiguation).
The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house in the United States in Washington, D.C., located at 516 10th Street NW, several blocks east of the White House. On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died there after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre, located across the street.
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Petersen House | |
Location | 516 10th St., N.W. (between E and F Sts.) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
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Coordinates | 38°53′48.4″N 77°1′34.4″W |
Area | 0.29 acres (1,200 m2) |
Built | 1849; 175 years ago (1849) |
Architectural style | Late Victorian |
Visitation | 856,079 (2005) |
Part of | Ford's Theatre National Historic Site (ID66000034[1]) |
Significant dates | |
Designated CP | October 15, 1966 |
Designated NHS | February 12, 2017 |
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The house was built in 1849 by William A. Petersen, a German tailor. Future Vice-President John C. Breckinridge, a friend of the Lincoln family, rented this house in 1852.[2] It served as a boarding house in 1865 and has been a museum since the 1930s, currently administered by the National Park Service.