Washington’s Petersen House, where Abraham Lincoln died after being shot in Ford’s Theatre, will close Dec. 25 for six months of historic preservation work and upgrades, the National Park ...

The Petersen House looked like a place anyone may want to stay while conducting business in Washington, D.C. A recreation of Lincoln's coffin making its way back home.

The previous evening, a man who wanted to be a hero for a lost cause had cowardly and callously shot President Lincoln in the back of the head at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C., at 10 p.m.

Here is an excerpt, which begins with Welles rushing to the Petersen House, on 10th Street NW, where Lincoln was taken after being shot by John Wilkes Booth in Ford's Theatre: ...

A crowd surrounds the funeral procession for President Abraham Lincoln in Philadelphia in April 1865. (Library of Congress / AP) 3 / 3. ... the time of Lincoln’s death, at the Petersen House.