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Harlan-Lincoln open house
An open house will be from 1-2 p.m. at the Harlan-Lincoln House, located on the northeast corner of campus at the intersection of Main and Broad Streets. The house was built in 1876 by United States Senator James Harlan, who served as president of Iowa Wesleyan College. Harlan's daughter, Mary, wed Robert Todd Lincoln, son of Abraham Lincoln. Their family spent a great deal of time in Mt Pleasant at the family home. The house is now a museum that includes artifacts from the Harlan and Lincoln families.
The open house will feature the pieces of Lincoln art in the museum collection, including Lincoln in sculpture, engravings, lithographs, photographs and paintings.
"We've got some [information] to describe what we know about certain pieces," said Lynn Ellsworth, executive director of Friends of the Harlan-Lincoln House.
The parlor of the Harlan-Lincoln House was "rehabilitated" in summer 2008, as the Harlan-Lincoln House January newsletter worded it.
"Since the evidence of the décor from earlier days had long since been removed, the Executive Committee of the Friends of the Harlan-Lincoln House made the decision to choose wallpaper and window treatments to reflect styles in 1895, (the date Mary Harlan Lincoln became the home's owner), and to compliment the colors in the carpet and furniture," reads the newsletter.
The fireplace was also reconstructed during the renovation. The white fireplace tiles that decorate it were from Robert Todd Lincoln's home on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago.
For more, see our Feb. 2 print edition.
