The Lincoln Room provides a place to enjoy fine loose-leaf teas, light fare, and a selection of private label retail items that reflect the charm of the 19th century town that is West Chester. You may make luncheon reservations or discuss having The Lincoln Room host your next special event by calling 610-696-2102. The proprietor is Susan Johnstone. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - The Lincoln Building, as it is called today, is a Federal-style structure built in 1833 by William Everhart (1785-1868), a former Congressman, philanthropist and prominent borough resident. The Lincoln Building is considered West Chester's first office building; that is, it offered no residential units. At five-stories, it was one of the tallest in West Chester. It is located at the corner of Market Street and Wilmont Mews, two of the original streets in West Chester. One of the tenants in the 1850's and 1860's was The Chester County Times, a weekly anti-slavery newspaper. In 1860, Abraham Lincoln was running for the presidential nomination of the new Republican Party. Jesse Fell, one of Lincoln's campaign managers, had realized Lincoln's need for publicity in the east to introduce himself as a prospective presidential candidate and urged him to submit his sketch to the Chester County Times, owned by his friend Joseph Lewis. The short humble sketch ran in the Times on February 11, 1860, and was later republished in some of the leading newspapers on the east coast. That simple account of his life was, according to Lincoln, instrumental in securing his nomination for the presidency on May 16, and his eventual election on November 7, 1860.