Soldiers' Home

The Soldiers' Home is an historic Italianate style building in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

[1][2] Mary Livermore and Jane Hoge, who had met during the war nursing soldiers at nearby Camp Douglas, conceived the idea of the hospital home, and a fundraising fair to support its building.

The initial construction was in substantial part funded by sale of President Abraham Lincoln's handwritten copy of the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Soldiers' Home is located south of the city area burned by the great fire and survived.

)[3] In the 21st century, the Soldiers' Home building is used for offices of the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, and named, the Cardinal Meyer Center.