Custer House - Interior

[Lawtonka]

Here are some interior views of the Custer House at Fort Abraham Lincoln, North Dakota. Photographed August 2001

[YellowRose]

Hi Lawtonka

These photos are beautiful. This is the same long room in which the Custers sat around their rented piano with their friends/family and sang songs, right? I remember also seeing a photo of the mantel next to a window and lots of house plants next to it. I wonder if Libbie had a green thumb at all?

Is this now a museum? Anything interesting to add about any of the house contents?

Thanks for the nice trip down history lane............

Best wishes

[bubbabod]

Lawtonka, thanks for the great pictures. I've never been able to make it to Ft. A. Lincoln, but that's high on my list of places to visit. Can you tell us what the docents there or whatever they had said about the furnishings, etc.? Yellowrose and other inquiring minds such as I would like to know any info you have.

[Diane Merkel]

I was there when the LBHA Conference was in Bismarck (Mandan, really) and I don't remember much being said about the furnishings. That may have been because we were a large group herding through there. Correct me if I'm wrong, Lawtonka, but I believe the furnishings are of the period but were not owned by the Custers.

In case you don't belong to enough historical associations, I highly recommend the Fort Abraham Lincoln Foundation: www.fortlincoln.com/

[elisabeth]

Didn't Libbie say her stuff was auctioned off to other officers when she moved back to Monroe? So somebody, somewhere, may have some historic heirlooms and not realise it!

[Lawtonka]

The day I took these we had a pretty small group. I was able to get a few questions answered.

There are a few things in the house that were owned by Libby and the General. These included the window dressings the frist photoand all of the marble top furniture.

I believe, if I remember correctly some of the books in the study and a couple of other odds and ends were original.