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The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal style row house in the United States in Washington, D.C., located at 516 10th Street NW, several blocks east of the White House. It is best known for being the house where President Abraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre located across the street.
The Petersen House (Swedish: Petersenska huset) is a building in Stockholm, Sweden, erected between 1645 and 1659 from construction drawings by Christian Julius Döteber, and built in the Dutch Baroque architectural style.
The Petersen House looked like a place anyone may want to stay while conducting business in Washington, D.C. A recreation of Lincoln's coffin making its way back home.
Ford's Theatre is a theater located in Washington, D.C., which opened in 1863.The theater is best known for being the site of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.On the night of April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the theater box where Lincoln was watching a performance of Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin, slipped the single-shot, 5.87-inch derringer from his pocket and fired at ...
Petersen Building, built in 1929, was designed by the architectural firm Meyer & Holler, [1] the same firm responsible for many of Hollywood's most notable landmarks, ...
Upon completion, Petersen's house was widely considered one of the most elegant homes in the region. Niels Petersen died in Tempe on April 27, 1923, at the age of 78. As a testament to his status in the community, flags were flown at half-mast and all schools and businesses were closed during his funeral.
The building is connected to the Max Petersen House by a narrow single-story corridor. Measuring 39 by 86 feet (12 by 26 m), the building follows a rectangular plan. Like all buildings built for the college through the 1960s, its exterior was composed of a mottled red face brick that was manufactured by the Hydraulic Press Brick Company of St ...
1910 Sanborn Map shows the original store building in the upper left corner of the block. Note the three storefronts immediately to the right and the warehouses across the alley were eventually incorporated into the store. J.H.C. Petersen was an immigrant from Schleswig in present-day Germany where he was educated until he was 16. [4]