{"id":3476,"date":"2011-10-08T01:36:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T05:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2012-01-01T03:22:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-01T08:22:07","slug":"levi-lincoln-jr-house-1836","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/?p=3476","title":{"rendered":"Levi Lincoln, Jr. House (1836)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lincoln-House.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Lincoln House\" width=\"500\" height=\"371\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lincoln-House.jpg 500w, https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Lincoln-House-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Levi_Lincoln,_Jr.\">Levi Lincoln, Jr.<\/a>, distantly related to and a supporter of Abraham Lincoln, was a lawyer and politician who served as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/?pageID=mg2terminal&#038;L=7&#038;L0=Home&#038;L1=State+Government&#038;L2=About+Massachusetts&#038;L3=Interactive+State+House&#038;L4=History+Resources&#038;L5=Governors+of+Massachusetts&#038;L6=Commonwealth+of+Massachusetts+%281780-1850%29&#038;sid=massgov2&#038;b=terminalcontent&#038;f=interactive_statehouse_govs_lincolnjr&#038;csid=massgov2\">governor<\/a> of Massachusetts (1825-1834) and in congress (1834-1841).  He later returned to his native Worcester, where he served as mayor.  He built a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.osv.org\/explore_learn\/document_viewer.php?Action=View&#038;DocID=1012\">Greek Revival<\/a> house <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanantiquarian.org\/images\/forbes\/000420-0790.jpg\">on Elm Street in Worcester<\/a> in 1836.  When Lincoln&#8217;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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cardcow.com\/32966\/levi-lincoln-house-old-sturbridge-village-massachusetts\/\">Lincoln House<\/a> was placed instead along Route 20, near the entrance to the museum.  It was opened to the public as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/1965-Governor-Lincoln-House-Old-Sturbridge-Village-Ma-\/370286836099\">a restaurant<\/a> at first, became a fabric shop in 1968 and has housed a branch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.countrycurtains.com\/display.do?ruleID=100220&#038;itemID=100681&#038;itemType=LANDING&#038;store=14\">Country Curtains<\/a> since 1982.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,166],"tags":[18,167],"class_list":["post-3476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greek-revival","category-houses","category-sturbridge","tag-museum","tag-old-sturbridge-village"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4004,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3476\/revisions\/4004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mass.historicbuildingsct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}