Presidents' homes and birthplaces the National Park Service keeps
Map of 8 locations in United States
Federal custody is what these addresses have in common: a family kept a house standing, or gave it away, and Congress or a president's proclamation put it under the National Park Service rather than a county historical society. The result is an uneven set of rooms, from a pair of saltbox houses in Quincy to a rented Springfield corner lot to a Virginia field where the birth house burned long ago. Read together they show which presidential lives left a building behind and which only left a site.
Places in this collection
- Lincoln Home National Historic Site — Lincoln lived in the Eighth Street house for seventeen years, leaving it in 1861 for Washington and never returning. The Park Service maint…
- George Washington Birthplace National Monument — The monument on Popes Creek marks where the first president was born in 1732, on land his family farmed in the Northern Neck. The original…
- Harry S. Truman National Historic Site — Truman's Independence house, the one he returned to from Washington in 1953 and lived in until his death, is kept by the National Park Serv…
- William Howard Taft National Historic Site — The Auburn Avenue house on Cincinnati's Mount Auburn hill is the home associated with the twenty-seventh president, the only man to hold bo…
- Andrew Johnson National Historic Site — The Park Service keeps the Greeneville home of the seventeenth president, the tailor who took office after Lincoln's assassination and was…
- Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site — The site preserves Springwood, which the Park Service describes as the lifelong home of the only president elected to four terms. Roosevelt…
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site — Rose Kennedy restored the Beals Street house to the condition it was in when her son was born there in 1917, then gave it to the National P…
- Adams National Historical Park — Two modest saltbox houses stand side by side here: John Adams was born in one, his son John Quincy Adams in the other. The park holds eleve…
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