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Foley House
The Foley House was placed on the National Register of Historic Places May 3rd, 1984. The house was constructed for Judge Stephan A. Foley by W.A. Otis, a distinguished Chicago architect. Mr. Otis also helped design the Newberry Library in Chicago. The house was constructed in 1898 out of yellow bricks. The street the house is on still has the red brick that was there when the house was constructed. Judge Foley also had Mr. Otis construct the Lincoln Public Library in 1903. Judge Foley over a four year span donated nearly 5,000 books to the library.
David H. Harts Jr. purchased the Foley house and donated it to Lincoln College in 1937 and it was renamed Hart Hall. It served as a women's residential hall from the 1930-1960.
Lincoln Depot
The Lincoln Depot is on the original site that Abraham Lincoln christened the town. Mr. Lincoln visited on a whistle-stop campaign in 1860. In 1865 his funeral train stopped in Lincoln overnight then finished the trip to Springfield. The depot that is there now is a Spanish Mission Style passenger depot that was constructed in 1911 for the Chicago and Alton Railway. It later became Gulf, Mobile and Ohio and is now a Union Pacific railway.
Postville Courthouse
The Postville Courthouse State Historic Site was constructed in 1840, the current building is a replica built in 1953. This courthouse was one that Abraham Lincoln argued several cases with the 8th Judicial Circuit that traveled the state. The first floor holds the reception and orientation rooms and the second floor has a 1840's courtroom and county office.
in 1929 Henry Ford bought the original house and it was moved to Dearborn, Michigan to become a part of the Greenfield Village Museum.
Town of Lincoln
The town has many murals and statues, many of them depict Abraham Lincoln or other local history. One very interesting points of interest in the town is the phone booth that sits on top of the roof of Lincoln City Hall. The perch was used during WWII for spotters for Civil Defense to keep an eye out for enemy aircraft. The phone booth was later used for weather spotting. The phone was a fully-operational and was used to warn the town of impending weather. The town is located off of Route 66 and is a nice stop driving from Chicago to Lincoln.
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