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 ...

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 ...

Illinois’ state historian says he can’t confirm whether a stovepipe hat that was once the crown jewel of Springfield’s Abraham Lincoln presidential museum actually belonged to the nation’s ...

The statue of Lincoln, showing him 20 years before he was elected President, sits overlooking the Ohio River, much like he wrote about in 1841. His hat sits beside him.

A Waterfront Park sculpture of Abraham Lincoln is missing its iconic top hat. The bronze hat had been by Lincoln's side, resting on top of a rock, since 2009.

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 ...

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 ...

At 6’4” tall, President Abraham Lincoln towered over most of his contemporaries. He chose to stand out even more by wearing high top hats. He acquired this one from Washington hat maker J.Y. Davis.

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.

A Waterfront Park sculpture of Abraham Lincoln is missing its iconic top hat. The bronze hat had been by Lincoln's side, resting on top of a rock, since 2009.