Title: Rosewood Bed in the Lincoln Bedroom Description: Perhaps
the most famous piece of furniture in the White House, the
“Lincoln Bed,” was purchased by Mrs. Lincoln in 1861. The bed
was placed in the “Prince of Wales Room,” named after the Prince
of Wales who stayed there in 1860. Carved grapes, grapevines,
and birds decorate the headboard and footboard of the bed, which
is six feet wide and eight feet long. President Lincoln never
slept in the bed, but Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and
Grace Coolidge did. Credit: Photograph by Bruce White, copyright
White House Historical Association