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\n Introduction<\/small>\n

Lincoln-Tallman House Museum<\/h2>\n <\/div>[vc_column_text el_class=”text-black text-large”]A Rock County icon, the Lincoln-Tallman House museum originally was the residence of the William Tallman family from 1857 to 1915.<\/p>\n

Operating as a historic house museum since 1951, the Lincoln-Tallman House has evolved into a site that can offer a traditional museum experience while providing its spaces for everyday use by the community. Rentals, educational programs, dining and other non-museum events have been hosted by the Tallman house in the recent past.<\/p>\n

The Lincoln-Tallman House is now seen as a venue that can be used and shared by all to create new history while still being true to its mission of interpreting local history.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css_animation=”fadeInUp” css=”.vc_custom_1468342429289{padding-bottom: 30px !important;}”][vc_wp_text el_class=”heading-small space-right-15″]\"Traditional<\/span><\/p>\n

Discover the beauty, ambiance and history of the Lincoln-Tallman House during its heyday as the home of the William Morrison Tallman family.<\/span>
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The Rock County Historical Society presents Help Wanted, a new tour that teaches visitors\u00a0about Victorian life through the eyes of the servants.<\/span>
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The Rock County Historical Society offers several\u00a0Tallman tours. Each, in its own way, will educate, excite and stimulate the senses as we take you on an exciting journey, telling the story of a Rock County family, during a turbulent period in American history. From our Traditional Tour to Help Wanted, we have a story to tell to every visitor inside the Lincoln-Tallman House.<\/p>\n

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Make your own history inside the Lincoln-Tallman House! Host your next party, meeting or activity in the ornate spaces of this historic, 19th-century Italianate mansion. Rental and photography packages are available that offer that one-of-a-kind, vintage, unforgettable experience. Be comfortable with the knowledge that your rental and use of the venue directly supports its sustainability.<\/p>\n

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Help us take down the velvet ropes of the Tallman house as we create unique, dynamic events that make history fun and entertaining. Our goal is to make the Lincoln-Tallman House relevant to the next generation. Offering the site as a forum for other organizations and individuals is essential in broadening the site and the Society\u2019s mission in Rock County.<\/p>\n

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\n Lincoln Tallman House<\/small>\n

General Information<\/h2>\n <\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″]
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Address<\/h3>\n

440 N. Jackson St.
\nJanesville, WI 53547
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Hours<\/h3>\n

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Rental & Tour information<\/h3>\n

Tim Maahs, Executive Director
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Meet The Tallmans<\/span><\/div>\n
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Seeing Janesville, Wisconsin, as the perfect place from which to manage his land purchases, William Morrison Tallman constructed a stately residence just north of the city\u2019s center. Completed in 1857, the Tallman\u2019s lived an affluent life, common to the upper-class in America during the 19th Century. With the help of family diaries and letters, as well as newspapers from the period, we are able to provide detailed information about their lives and the history of the area.<\/p>\n

Three generations of Tallmans lived on the original footprint of the family homestead, finally shuttering the original residence in 1915. The transfer of property to the City of Janesville ensured that their home would be operated as a house museum in perpetuity for the benefit of Janesville and Rock County residents and visitors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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William Morrison Tallman<\/h3>\n

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\n The Patriarch <\/p> \n<\/div>\n[vc_toggle title=”Meet William” el_id=”1452700130484-b1aaf469-ebfe”]Originally settling in Janesville to manage his land holdings, Tallman quickly became a local leader, participating in law and politics. An abolitionist, Tallman attended a speech in Beloit by a politician named Abraham Lincoln, who had similar abolitionist leanings. So struck by his words, Tallman invited Lincoln to speak in Janesville the next day. With nowhere to stay, Tallman offered his residence to Lincoln for the evening. The rest, as they say, is history.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1453330685587{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]\n

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Emeline Dexter Tallman<\/h3>\n

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\n The Matriarch <\/p> \n<\/div>\n[vc_toggle title=”Meet Emeline” color=”chino” el_id=”1453223531937-704d7aca-1db1″]The wife of William Morrison Tallman. Emeline and their two youngest children joined William in Janesville in 1850. No records exist documenting how she felt about the move west.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1453330690692{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]\n

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William Henry Tallman<\/h3>\n

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\n The Oldest Son <\/p> \n<\/div>\n[vc_toggle title=”Meet William Henry” color=”chino” el_id=”1453226009360-65e04031-1715″]The oldest child of William Morrison and Emeline Tallman, William Henry never lived at the Tallman residence. He arrived in Janesville a year after the rest of his family in order to finish up an apprenticeship at a pharmacy in New York. Upon arriving in Janesville, William Henry, with the help of his father, bought an interest in the drugstore Holden and Kemp. In 1857, the company is called Tallman and Collins\u2019 Empire Drug Store and by 1868, William owned the company. William remained in Janesville his entire life, dying in 1902.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1453330697141{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]\n

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Cornelia Augusta Tallman<\/h3>\n

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\n The Only Daughter <\/p> \n<\/div>\n[vc_toggle title=”Meet “Gussie“” color=”chino” el_id=”1453325893261-e1b16d8b-51d1″]The only daughter and youngest child of William and Emeline Tallman, Gussie Tallman arrived in Wisconsin at the age of 12 and was 19 when she moved into the Tallman residence. A diary kept by Gussie in 1860 indicates that she was well read, enjoyed going to parties and social gatherings, and was a good friend of Nellie Norton, her brother\u2019s future wife. Gussie left the Tallman residence for Chicago after marrying John Beach in 1865. She died the following year in June. The cause of her death is unknown.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1453330702025{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]\n

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Edgar Dexter Tallman<\/h3>\n

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\n The Second Son <\/p> \n<\/div>\n[vc_toggle title=”Meet Edgar” color=”chino” el_id=”1453326309078-c66e937d-c44d”]Edgar and Nellie lived 2 blocks from each other after the 21-year-old Edgar moves into the Tallman house. After the Civil War, Edgar and Nellie move back to the Tallman residence, living there the rest of their married life, taking care of the house after Edgar\u2019s parents die, and giving birth to both of their sons. Edgar dies in the house in 1896.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1453330707795{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]\n

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Nellie Norton Tallman<\/h3>\n

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\n A Good And Caring Woman <\/p> \n<\/div>\n[vc_toggle title=”Meet Nellie” color=”chino” el_id=”1453326326077-10ac37b9-8c14″]Although married in 1861, the 1860 diary kept by Gussie Tallman makes no mention of a possible \u201cromantic\u201d relationship between them. Nellie continues to live in the house with her children\u2019s family until the house is abandoned in 1915. She then spends the rest of her life, until her death in 1924, living in her children\u2019s houses.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1453330713070{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]\n

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Charles Edward Tallman<\/h3>\n

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\n The Favorite Grandson <\/p> \n<\/div>\n[vc_toggle title=”Meet Charles” color=”chino” el_id=”1453326333282-710ea917-10fc”]The children of Edgar and Nellie Tallman, Stanley and Charles, were both born and grew up in the Tallman residence. Stanley married in 1911 while Charles married earlier in 1908. Family records indicate that Charles and his family resides on the main floor of the Tallman residence, turning the drawing room into a bedroom. In 1915, both brothers built a residence for their respective families on the Tallman property, just south of the original Tallman residence. Today, those residences are 430 and 426 North Jackson Streets, respectively. Stanley died in 1922 and Charles in 1948.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″ css=”.vc_custom_1453330718088{padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”]\n

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George Kemp Tallman<\/h3>\n

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\n The Last Link <\/p> \n<\/div>\n[vc_toggle title=”Meet George” color=”chino” el_id=”1453326317539-a87afcca-0925″]George was the grandson of William Morrison Tallman, the builder of the Tallman House. He was born in December 1874 and became a lawyer, following in his grandfather\u2019s footsteps. He and his wife Alice McGregor Tallman donated the Tallman House to the city of Janesville just prior to his death in 1950.[\/vc_toggle][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row isfullwidth=”0″ el_class=”no-padding” css=”.vc_custom_1468343202440{margin-bottom: -35px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”10207″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces” full_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1457544544633{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #691016 !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1453327547320{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}”]\n

\n Take a peek inside<\/small>\n

Photo Gallery<\/h2>\n <\/div>[vc_gallery type=”image_grid” images=”9733,9734,9731,9735,9732,9736,9737,9738″ img_size=”medium”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row parallax=”1″ css=”.vc_custom_1449768133460{padding-top: 100px !important;padding-bottom: 100px !important;background-color: #eaeaea !important;}” el_class=”vertical-midde-contact-form”][vc_column css_animation=”fadeInUp”]\n
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Contact us for more information on the Lincoln-Tallman House<\/h2>\n <\/div>[vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1450418856227{padding-top: 23px !important;}”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n
For more information on tours, events, rentals and general info, please contact:<\/div>\n
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Address:<\/b>
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\nLincoln-Tallman House
\n440 North Jackson Street
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Phone:<\/b>
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Email:<\/b>
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