Levi Lincoln, Jr., distantly related to and a supporter of Abraham Lincoln, was a lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts (1825-1834) and in congress (1834-1841). He later returned to his native Worcester, where he served as mayor. He built a Greek Revival house on Elm Street in Worcester in 1836. When Lincoln’s heirs sold the property for development in 1949, it was rescued by Old Sturbridge Village, where it was moved in 1952. Too much of a urban mansion to be suitable for the Village itself, the Lincoln House was placed instead along Route 20, near the entrance to the museum. It was opened to the public as a restaurant at first, became a fabric shop in 1968 and has housed a branch of Country Curtains since 1982.