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14 APRIL 1865 · AND THE ROOM IT STANDS IN
The barouche: The carriage Abraham Lincoln rode to Ford's Theatre on the night of his assassination, 14 April 1865, is a Studebaker, and it stands in South Bend. It stands in company: the carriage the Marquis de Lafayette used on his farewell tour of the United States in 1824–25, and the presidential carriages of Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley, all of them in the collection the Studebaker company assembled for itself and the city received as a gift in 1966, the year the company ended. The museum and the city's visitor bureau describe the room as the world's largest collection of United States presidential carriages — a superlative printed here as their claim, which the four carriages in one room go far to support.
Sources:
- The Museums section of this history — the Studebaker National Museum's published accounts and the seven objects designated National Treasures (Lincoln's Ford's Theatre barouche; Lafayette's farewell-tour carriage), as carried by Military Trader; Visit South Bend Mishawaka — the carriages of Lafayette, Grant, Benjamin Harrison, Lincoln and McKinley, and the "world's largest collection of U.S. presidential carriages" as the museum's stated standing; the Studebaker section — the 14 April 1865 carriage as the museum states it.