The David Wills House Project
The historic David Wills House in downtown Gettysburg is now open to the public! Wills’ home was in the center of the immense clean-up process after the Battle of Gettysburg. In a second-floor bedroom, President Abraham Lincoln put the finishing touches on his Gettysburg Address - the speech transformed Gettysburg from a place of sorrow to the symbol of our nation's new birth of freedom.
The museum includes six galleries, including the restored office where David Wills coordinated post-battle recovery efforts and invited a President to deliver "a few appropriate remarks," and the famous Lincoln bedroom where the President finished revising the Gettysburg Address.
Main Street Gettysburg operates the Wills House museum in cooperation with the National Park Service. See the Park brochure for driving directions and parking, or take the downtown shuttle from the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center, 1195 Baltimore, Gettysburg. There is an admission fee to the Wills House.
The David Wills House Facts and Figures (pdf)