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Hildene

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Hildene is a Georgian Revival house at 1005 Hildene Road in Manchester Center, Vermont, built in 1905 by the firm Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge as the summer residence of Robert Todd Lincoln, the eldest son of President Abraham Lincoln and the only one of his four sons to survive into adulthood, and his wife Mary Harlan Lincoln. The house remained in the Lincoln family until 1975, when the last direct descendant living there died. The nonprofit Friends of Hildene acquired the 412 acre estate in 1978 and restored it as a historic house museum, which retains period Lincoln family furnishings and a 1908 Aeolian pipe organ. Its formal garden, laid out in 1907, holds more than a thousand herbaceous peonies. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Manchester, United States 2
Completed Year
1905 1
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Standing 1
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Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
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1. Hildene (Wikipedia)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildene, lead definition
    Hildene, the Lincoln Family Home is the former summer home of Robert Todd Lincoln and his wife Mary Harlan Lincoln, located at 1005 Hildene Road in Manchester Center, Vermont.
  • Landscape
    Completed in 1905 in the Georgian Revival style, the house is located on a 300-foot (91 m) promontory overlooking the Battenkill Valley.
  • History
    He first visited Manchester Center, Vermont at age 20 in the summer of 1863 when he, his brother Tad, and their mother stayed at the nearby Equinox House to escape the heat of Washington, D.C. Hildene remained occupied by descendants of the Lincoln family until 1975, when the next to last descendant of the Lincoln-Harlan family, Mary Lincoln Beckwith, granddaughter of Robert and Mary and daughter of Jessie and Warren Wallace Beckwith, died there.
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2. Hildene (Wikidata)
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  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q5761675, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Manchester, United States
    Wikidata item Q5761675, property P131/P17 (location): Manchester, United States
  • In Style: Georgian Architecture, Wikidata P149
    architectural style: Georgian architecture
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Wikidata: Hildene
Wikidata Q5761675, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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