Dining Room
The dining room is located between the kitchen and sitting room. Here, Leonard Volk of Chicago cast Lincoln's hands in plaster soon after Abraham Lincoln received the Republican presidential nomination.Volk said, "I wished him to hold something in his right hand, and he looked for a piece of pasteboard, but could find none. I told him a round stick would do as well as anything. Thereupon he went to the wood-shed, and I heard to saw go, and he soon returned to the dining-room (where I did the work), whittling off the end of a piece of broom-handle."
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