Lindbergh House

Lindbergh House. . , "I never deserted the farm as the ultimate goal of my return - and there is my home when I am home, for the farm unquestionably is the best of all places to live, and it affords the most independence." Thus wrote Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., about his home here on the bank of the Mississippi River., C.A. Lindbergh was born in Sweden in 1859. One year later, his father, August Lindbergh, a former member of the Swedish Parliament, brought his wife and infant son to a farm near Melrose, Minnesota, where C.A. grew up. He came to Little Falls as a young lawyer, became a prominent member of the community, and served five terms as a United States Congressman from 1907 until 1917., Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr., who became world famous in 1927 when he flew nonstop and alone from New York to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis, spent his boyhood summers here in this house built by his father in 1907. In the years following his landmark achievement in aviation he had an active career in exploration, scientific research, writing, and conservation., In 1931, the Lindbergh family gave this house and 110 acres of land to the state of Minnesota as a memorial to Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr.