[1] The largest memorabilia collection, memorial and research center dedicated to Abraham Lincoln on the west coast of the United States.

The Memorial Shrine was dedicated by the Watchorn family for their only adult surviving son, Emory Watchorn, who died at the age of twenty-five in 1921 due to complications from service as an open-air cockpit pilot in WWI.

Years after his death, the Watchorns decided to build the memorial at their winter home in Redlands.

Designed by Elmer Grey and interior murals created by Dean Cornwell.

The Memorial Shrine obtained the Watchorn Family Collection papers and portraits in September 2008 for $108,000.

Obtains letter and books from the time Watchorn was an immigration commissioner at Ellis Island from 1905 to 1909.