116 N. Gilbert St., Danville, Illinois. County/parish: Vermilion.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 01, 1975. NRIS 75002060.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
The Fithian House is a historic house located at 116 N. Gilbert St. in Danville, Vermilion County Illinois. The Italianate house was built in 1855 for William Fithian. Fithian was a physician and a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate. In addition, Fithian donated land for and was the namesake of Fithian, Illinois, a Vermilion County village located west of Danville. Abraham Lincoln was a close friend of Fithian's, and while visiting Danville during his 1858 senatorial campaign, he stayed in the house and gave a speech from its second-floor balcony.
The house is now part of the Vermilion County Museum, a history museum which exhibits both the house's period interior and displays on local history and historical figures in a separate building.
The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1975.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28894227