Fithian House

{{short description|Historic house in Illinois, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2025}}

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| name = Fithian House

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| image = Fithian House in Danville.jpg

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| location = 116 N. Gilbert St., Danville, Illinois

| coordinates = {{coord|40|7|39|N|87|38|10|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Illinois#USA

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| mapframe-marker = building

| mapframe-zoom = 12

|mapframe-caption = Interactive map showing the location of Fithian House

| built = {{Start date|1855}}

| added = May 1, 1975

| area = {{convert|0.1|acre}}

| refnum = 75002060{{NRISref|version=2010a}}

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The Fithian House is a historic house located at 116 N. Gilbert St. in Danville, Vermilion County Illinois. The Italianate house was built in 1855 for William Fithian. Fithian was a physician and a politician who served in the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois Senate. In addition, Fithian donated land for and was the namesake of Fithian, Illinois, a Vermilion County village located west of Danville. Abraham Lincoln was a close friend of Fithian's, and while visiting Danville during his 1858 senatorial campaign, he stayed in the house and gave a speech from its second-floor balcony.

The house is now part of the Vermilion County Museum, a history museum which exhibits both the house's period interior and displays on local history and historical figures in a separate building.{{cite web|last=Collison|first=John E.|title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Fithian House|url=http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/200669.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140322075637/http://gis.hpa.state.il.us/pdfs/200669.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-03-22|publisher=National Park Service|access-date=March 21, 2014|date=July 1974}}

The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 1, 1975.