Harry S. Truman National Historic Site

The comfortable 14 room, Victorian house at 219 North Delaware Street was the home of Harry S Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, for over 50 years. He moved into the house when he married Bess Wallace, ...

Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site

"All that is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River" -FDR

For Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, Springwood, the family estate on the Hudson River in Hyde ...

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site

"My grandparents and my parents came here in a covered wagon. In this community they toiled and worshipped God. They lie buried on your hillside. The most formative years of my boyhood were spent here. My roots are in ...

Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site

Busy port cities are a crucial part of the modern world, but there were similar places in years past as well. The Knife River area was an important trading and agricultural region inhabited by Native peoples for over 10,000 years. ...

William Howard Taft National Historic Site

William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States, lived in this comfortable house from his birth in 1857 until he went away to college in 1874.  During the years he lived here, he learned to love the ...

Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

On September 14, 1901, Theodore Roosevelt took the oath of office as the 26th and youngest president of the United States in the library of Ansley Wilcox’s fine house in Buffalo. Only 42 years old, he succeeded President William ...

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States, bought 155 acres on the fashionable north shore of Long Island in 1880, with Alice Hathaway Lee, the woman he would marry later in the year. She helped plan the ...

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt, the sickly child who became the energetic 26th president of the United States, was born on this site in 1858 and lived here until he was 14.  The original birthplace was a typical New York brownstone located ...

James A. Garfield National Historic Site (Lawnfield)

James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, made his home at Lawnfield from 1876 until his death in 1881. Here he conducted the first “front porch” presidential campaign, giving speeches from the verandah. The many reporters ...

Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site (White Haven)

Ulysses S. Grant, the victorious Civil War general and 18th president of the United States, met his beloved wife, Julia Dent, at White Haven plantation in 1844. He lived there with his growing family from 1854 to 1859 and ...