David Wills House

Welcome, observant traveler, to the historic heart of Gettysburg. You are standing in Lincoln Square, historically known as the Diamond, looking at the handsome red brick facade of the David Wills House. …

We begin our interior exploration on the first floor, inside what was David Wills' private law office. Today, it serves as an interactive display space, but you must imagine it in the late summer and autumn of eighteen sixty…

Let us step across the hall into the front parlor of the Wills house. The immediate contrast between the administrative chaos of the office and the formalized elegance of this room is striking. …

As we move toward the staircase area, we must pause to discuss one of the most fascinating and unexpected aspects of the David Wills House. During the extensive National Park Service rehabilitation project in two thousand and…

Continuing our examination of the archaeological finds from the staircase wall, we uncover evidence of the building's varied commercial past. Before David Wills established his genteel law practice here, the structure experienced…

Let us now ascend to the second floor, moving into the rooms intimately connected with the events of November eighteen and nineteen, eighteen sixty three. This space, adjacent to the bedroom where the President stayed, serves as…

We have finally arrived at the historical epicenter of the David Wills House, the second floor bedroom where President Abraham Lincoln spent the night of November eighteenth, eighteen sixty three. This is the very room where he…

As we conclude our tour of the David Wills House and prepare to descend back into the modern bustle of Lincoln Square, I encourage you to pause and synthesize the vast array of history contained within these walls. We have…