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Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home

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1905 Georgian Revival home built by Robert Lincoln.
412-acre estate with gardens, working farms, hiking trails & restored 1903 Pullman railcar.
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Welcome Center & The Museum Store. Hildene, The Lincoln Family Home is located in the quintessential Vermont village of Manchester. Robert Lincoln, the only child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln to survive to adulthood, built his ancestral home in 1905. It was only occupied by the Lincoln family until 1975. Hildene’s 412 acres include the historic home, a goat dairy, restored Pullman car, a working farm and 12 miles of walking trails; a formidable landscape to put Hildene’s mission, Values into Action, into practice. The formal garden boasts a thousand peony blooms, many from the original plants which date back to 1908. The Rowland Agricultural Center at Hildene Farm houses our cheese making facility and is home to a herd of Nubian goats, whose milk is used to produce our goat cheese. 2011 marked the arrival of the 1903 Pullman Palace car, Sunbeam. It is a beautiful example of a wooden Pullman car, but more importantly, we use Sunbeam to tell the paradoxical story “Many Voices,” those of the Company, High Society, African American Pullman porters and us; our guests and our staff. We also offer excellent educational opportunities for children. From our school programs to summer camps, our staff engages youngsters in subjects including agriculture, natural science and history. For more information on Hildene please contact us, we would love you hear from you. Our phone number is 800.578.1788 or you can email us at [email protected].

10/11/2026

Peony Dividing at Hildene

Last week, we got our hands dirty in the Formal Garden with one of our favorite fall projects: peony dividing! Division is simply creating new peony and other clumping plants which will be a clone of the parent.

Fall is an ideal time to divide peonies, when the plants are entering dormancy and can be carefully lifted, separated, and replanted. From just 11 mature peony plants, we were able to make an incredible 130 divisions, each with the potential to grow into a beautiful, long-lived plant.

Many of these divisions will be used to grow plants for sale, helping share a little piece of Hildene’s gardens far and wide. Larger pieces with more growing buds or “eyes” are replanted throughout the gardens proliferating as they have for the last 120+ years.

This tradition is a satisfying reminder that in a garden, a little digging can go a very long way!

– Gabi Stone | Director of Horticulture  

10/10/2026

Meet Watercolor Artist, Mary Albyn
The Museum Store
Saturday, October 17th | 1:00 pm -3:00 pm

Mary has lived in Vermont for over 40 years. Her love of frogs started as a young child at her father’s nursery pond in Ohio.

Mary started painting in the 1970s, and since retiring 10 years ago, she has been working with watercolors exclusively.

Please enjoy the many faces of frogs!  

10/08/2026

Docents of Hildene

“My favorite part of Hildene is the conversations with guests from all over the world. And many visitors do not know as much about Abraham Lincoln’s family as they thought they did and almost nothing about the reality of the Pullman Porters. Also being here, often outdoors, four seasons a year is priceless.”

– Tom Taylor

10/05/2026

Thank you to Lisa and team for the honeycomb! We rendered it down, filtered out the impurities, and yielded almost two and a half pounds of wax for our goat milk soap production!

Joshua Robinson | Cheese Maker and Farm Staff, Hildene Farm at the Goat Dairy

10/04/2026

A Joyful Harvest: Looking Back at Honey Season at Hildene Farm

From just two production hives, this summer’s harvest at the apiary in the dene came to 27 gallons of honey. That is about 324 pounds. Consider what it took to make it.

Honey bees make roughly 2 million visits to flowers to produce a single pound of honey, and a worker bee produces only about 1/12 of a teaspoon in her entire lifetime. Every jar on the shelf represents an almost unimaginable amount of work by a very large number of very small creatures.

Now, as the apiary is prepared for winter, it’s the right moment to look back at what the bees have given us this year, and at the many hands that helped bring it in.

Read the full article on our blog: https://hildene.org/blogs/news/a-joyful-harvest-looking-back-at-honey-season-at-hildene-farm

10/02/2026

Come visit Hildene this fall. Family fun for all!

Plan your visit at hildene.org

10/01/2026

An Ode to Peaches

“To encounter Peaches the Pig at Hildene is to feel the day briefly rearrange itself around her. Perhaps you hear her first: a low, conversational grunt from the barnyard, followed by the soft churn of straw beneath sturdy feet. Then she appears—broad-backed, bright-eyed, and purposeful, her snout testing the air and the ground with equal interest. She does not perform for visitors. She investigates. Yet that calm self-possession is precisely what draws us closer. Peaches makes attention feel like a shared activity: we watch her noticing the world, and in doing so begin to notice it again ourselves.”

- Craig Gemmell | President

Visit our blog to continue reading this article: https://hildene.org/blogs/news/an-ode-to-peaches

09/28/2026

Come Experience October Programs at Hildene
 

Address

PO Box 377, 1005 Hildene Road
Manchester, VT
05254

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 4:30pm
Thursday	10am - 4:30pm
Friday	10am - 4:30pm
Saturday	10am - 4:30pm
Sunday	10am - 4:30pm

Telephone

+18005781788

Website

http://www.hildene.org/

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