
Blandin House
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The Village of Blandinsville was a bustling place in the 1850s and once hosted a young ambitious politician from Springfield named Abraham Lincoln. Today, the Blandin House Museum pays honor to this visit.
In October of 1858, as Lincoln was stumping throughout Illinois for a seat in the State Senate and in between debating Stephen Douglas, he stayed with postmaster, businessman, and fellow lawyer, Charles R. Hume and his wife, Harriett Blandin.
Harriet was the daughter of the town's founding father, Joseph Blandin the man who built this house in 1841. The Hume home sat on Main Street, just over 600 ft. west of the Blandin House. It was destroyed by fire on August 21, 1914.
On May 16, 1970, a group of concerned citizens, led by Mrs. Blanche Hainline, bought the vacant brick house on the east side of the village park and started a museum to honor founding father, Joseph Blandin and his family.
Over the years, the Museum has added many artifacts from the history of Blandinsville. The Blandin House Museum is located on Chestnut Street, west of the Blandinsville village park.
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