Does anyone know the address of the house where Mary was born? It was on a corner lot of her Grandmother Parker's property. Grandma Parker lived at 511 West Short Street.
The house where Mary was destroyed by fire leaving only the outer shell. In 1887, the home was purchased by St. Paul's Catholic Church and was torn down. The bricks, stairway, windows, and doors were used to construct the two-story gatehouse at the entrance to Calvary Cemetery on Main Street in Lexington.
Donna, the web page
here says it was 509 West Short Street. This is what it says in #15 on that page.
(06-27-2017 05:18 AM)RJNorton Wrote: [ -> ]Donna, the web page here says it was 509 West Short Street. This is what it says in #15 on that page.
Thanks Roger.
The link is broken, or at least my computer would not take me to it. Do you have another way I can visit the website?
Thanks
Donna, the link was broken when I first went to the URL, so I posted the link to Google's cached page. Now it looks like Google has dropped the page from its cache. The page was actually a .pdf file on the Mary Todd Lincoln House website. I am sure if you write the folks at the Mary Todd Lincoln House they can send you that .pdf file.
Also, I found a video that has the same 509 West Short Street address.
Go here.
Thanks for posting that link, Lane!
(07-06-2017 02:58 PM)ELCore Wrote: [ -> ]The Wayback Machine has it: Lincoln's Lexington Walking Tour.
Excellent! And now that I have seen your post, I realized if I go through the file cabinet, I probably have one of these brochures buried somewhere in drawer two. It's the curse of having too much stuff. Thank you so much for your wonderful help.
(07-08-2017 12:30 AM)Donna McCreary Wrote: [ -> ]Excellent! And now that I have seen your post, I realized if I go through the file cabinet, I probably have one of these brochures buried somewhere in drawer two. It's the curse of having too much stuff. Thank you so much for your wonderful help.
Glad to be of service. The Wayback Machine (
Internet Archive) has an awful lot of stuff that used to be on the active World Wide Web.
