Kersey Fell Law Office

Across Washington Street from the south side of the Museum.

During Lincoln's day, Kersey Fell maintained a law office on the second floor of 106 W. Washington St. This Greek Revival building and the similar one immediately to the west (108 W. Washington St.) are the lone survivors of a larger row of seven buildings known as the Phoenix Block, so-called because the buildings quickly arose from the ashes of an 1856 downtown fire. Lincoln would have been a regular visitor to Fell's office. Jesse Fell recalled that in 1858, he espied Lincoln leaving the Courthouse, invited him over to his brother's office, and suggested he run for president.