If my name ever goes into history, it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.

— A. Lincoln, 1863

Visitor Education Center

The Robert H. Smith Visitor Education Center is housed in a 1905 Beaux Arts style building adjacent to President Lincoln’s Cottage. The rehabilitated Visitor Education Center is the first National Trust Historic site structure to qualify for LEED (Leadership in Environmental and Energy Design) certification from the US Green Building Council. This “green” renovation was supported by a $1 million grant from United Technologies Corporation.

For more information about the decision and process that led to the greening of the President Lincoln's Cottage Visitor Education Center, please read "I'm Over 100--Can I Still Go Green?" by Sophia Lynn (Forum Journal, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Spring 2007, v21, n3.)