2 hours (approx.)
Daily Tour
10 people
English
This tour will take you minute by minute through the last day of the 16th President, Abraham Lincoln. We include tickets to enter Ford's Theatre Historic Site, Museum & Peterson's Boarding House for a self-guided visit after our tour. You will meet the conspirators who were desperately trying to save the Confederate cause in the dying days of the Civil War. Three attacks were to take place that night. This tour unfolds as a story filled with suspense, intrigue, and espionage. Learn about and see: The White House, where Lincoln gave his final speech in the presence of his later assassin, John Wilkes Booth Home of Secretary of State Seward, who was attacked that night by a co-conspirator. National Theatre, a potential site of the attack on Lincoln, but instead, where his young son learned of the death of his father. Site of the Kirkwood House, where Vice President Andrew Johnson lived, and an attack on him was planned.
Nicknamed the Church of the Presidents, we start our tour here to get an overview of Washington, D.C., in the 1860s and understand the events that led to this fateful night. We do not enter this building and only view it from outside.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
The tour will begin with an introduction to President Lincoln’s final months in the White House. New characters will be introduced as we explore the historic row houses that surround the park.
20 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
We talk about Abraham Lincoln’s presidency during the Civil War and his final speech; given at the White House in the presence of his later assassin, John Wilkes Booth. We do not enter this building and only view it from outside.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
On the day of the assassination, John Wilkes Booth stopped by this theater and met with a friend. Later that evening, Lincoln’s son Tad watched a play, Aladdin or His Wonderful Lamp, at this theater. We do not enter this building; we only view it from outside.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Across from this grand old building was the location of the Kirkwood House Hotel. This is where Vice President Andrew Johnson stayed. Conspirator George Azerodt rented a room here and was given the job of attacking Johnson that same night. We do not enter this building; we only view it from outside.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
This small and simple historic row house was a boarding house at the time of the Civil War. After Lincoln was shot, he was taken to a room on the first floor of this house while the doctors attended to his health. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton interviewed witnesses here that night. Robert Todd Lincoln arrived from the White House and stayed by his father’s side all night. It was a sad procession early the next morning when they finally brought the President’s lifeless body down the steps for his carriage journey back to the White House.
15 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
This is the historic theater where John Wilkes Booth snuck up behind the President like a coward and fired that fateful shot. Today it is a working theater and it has been restored to his Civil War era grandeur. Millions of Americans visit this location every year to remember Lincoln and his legacy.
30 minutes • Admission Ticket Included
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