Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. At 6-foot-4, he would stand out even today, and he certainly towered over the men and women of his era. The top hat he habitually wore in public made him ...

The report said the hat did not appear to be in Lincoln’s size, that it was once sold by a downstate antique shop for just $1 in the 1950s and that descendants of the hat’s original owner were ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Abraham Lincoln’s iconic stove pipe hat is missing from a sculpture along the waterfront in Louisville. Sculptor Ed Hamilton, who designed the work of Lincoln looking out over ...

The hat is back | Waterfront Park's Abraham Lincoln statue complete again The original hat has not been recovered; its replacement cost $17,000 which was mostly covered by insurance. Waterfront ...

For more than a decade, a large bronze top hat has rested next to a stately statue of Abraham Lincoln sitting on a rock in Louisville, Kentucky’s Waterfront Park and, until recently, the ...

In conjunction with the February celebration of the life and legacy of Abraham Lincoln, ... “Abe Lincoln’s Hat,” an illustrated account of the adventures of our nation’s 16th President, ...

Lincoln’s top hats were not always of the same design. At his first inauguration in 1860, he wore the lower silk plush hat that had by that time come into fashion.