Petersen House

The Petersen House is a 19th-century federal stylerow house in the United States in Washington, D.C., located at 516 10th Street NW, several blocks east of the White House. It is known for being the house where PresidentAbraham Lincoln died on April 15, 1865 after being shot the previous evening at Ford's Theatre located across the street.

The house was built in 1849 by William A. Petersen, a Germantailor. Future vice-presidentJohn C. Breckinridge, a friend of the Lincoln family, rented this house in 1852. It served as a boarding house in 1865 and has been a museum since the 1930s, currently administered by the National Park Service.