When Wilson got the flu in 1918
Meanwhile, Wilson’s condition worsened. And he began acting very strange.
“Generally predictable in his actions, Wilson began blurting unexpected orders,” A. Scott Berg wrote in his biography of Wilson. “Twice he created a scene over pieces of furniture that had suddenly disappeared,” even though the furniture had not moved. Wilson also thought he was surrounded by spies.
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moved into this Kalorama, DC area home he purchased in 1920. They lived there after his term ended, he d. 1924 and Edith lived there until her death in 1961. Most of his time was spent in an upstairs bedroom.
As a grad student I worked for 2 historic properties in Wash. DC owned by the National Trust For Historic Preservation-- Woodrow Wilson House and Stephen Decatur House on Lafayette Square. (I didn't see or hear any ghosts, lol).
There's quite a bit of interesting memorabilia and artifacts in the Wilsons' home including his papers from Princeton Univ., a period Victrola music player and wax cylinder records; period furnishings and a 1920s kitchen with the 'latest' appliances.
The house was built c. 1915 and is similar architecturally to 2 townhouse properties next-door (left side), formerly the 'Textile Museum' and now owned by Jeff Bezos.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson_House_(Washington,_D.C.)
(Wiki) The Woodrow Wilson House was the residence of the Twenty-Eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson after he left office. It is at 2340 S Street NW just off Washington, D.C.'s Embassy Row. On February 3, 1924, Wilson died in an upstairs bedroom.It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1964. The National Trust for Historic Preservation owns the house and operates it as a museum.
History:
The house was built by Henry Fairbanks in 1915 on a design by prominent masonic Washington architect Waddy Wood. President Woodrow Wilson bought it in the last months of his second term as President of the United States as a gift to his wife, Edith Bolling Wilson. He presented her the deed in December 1920, although he had never seen the house. The former president and his wife moved into the home on Inauguration Day, which in 1921 was March 4 (not the current date of January 20). Wilson made several modifications to the house, including a billiard room, stacks for his library of over 8,000 books, and a one-story brick garage.
It was from the balcony of the house that Wilson addressed a crowd on November 11, 1923, as his last public appearance. While the Wilsons had few guests, former British Prime Minister David Lloyd George and former French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau did visit the ailing former president there.[3] After Wilson's death in 1924, Edith Wilson lived there until her death on December 28, 1961. She hosted First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy for a brunch in the formal dining room. Edith bequeathed the property and all of its original furnishings to the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
In the years since President Wilson's death visitors and staff of this house and several others built by Wood in the DC area have reported seeing or hearing what they believed to be ghosts.
Spanish Flu 1918
