Presidential Homes and the Historic American Buildings Survey
Many national parks have direct connections to American presidents - dozens of national historic sites, monuments, and memorials (even one National Park) preserve the birthplaces, childhood homes, and residences of our nation's chief executives. One national park, the White House, has even been home to every U.S. president except George Washington.
However, the National Park Service's preservation of presidential sites extends beyond park boundaries. Many of the National Park Service's cultural resource programs also deal with the presidency, including the National Register of Historic Places, the National Historic Landmarks Program, and Teaching with Historic Places lesson plans. But among the most popular NPS programs dealing with the presidency is the Historic American Buildings Survey, which documents important architectural sites throughout the United States and its territories, including homes of and monuments and memorials to more than 30 of our nation's chief executives.
Started in 1933 as a New Deal program to provide much-needed work for architects, photographers, and historians, the Historic American Buildings Survey has recorded America's built environment in multiformat surveys comprised of more than 556,900 measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories. Among the more than 38,600 historic structures and sites documented in the collection (which are produced by the National Park Service and digitzed for display by the Library of Congress) are the birthplaces, homes, monuments and memorials to more than 30 of our nation's presidents, from the Washington Monument to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to LBJ's Texas ranch.
Follow the links below to explore some of the presidential sites preserved by the National Park Service, both sites administered as national parks (links in gold), and drawings and photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey (links in green).
President's Park (White House)
George Washington
George Washington's Birthplace National Monument
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Mount Rushmore National Monument
Washington Monument
George Washington Memorial Parkway
Mount Vernon
Washington Monument
John Adams
Adams Mansion
Adams Mansion Flower Garden
John Adams Birthplace
Thomas Jefferson (3rd U.S. President - 1801-1809)
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Mount Rushmore National Monument
Thomas Jefferson Memorial
Jefferson Memorial
Monticello
Virginia State Capitol
James Madison (4th U.S. President - 1809-1817)
James Monroe
Ash Lawn
James Monroe Tomb
Monroe Law Office
John Quincy Adams
Adams National Historical Park
Adams Mansion
Adams Mansion Flower Garden
John Quincy Adams Birthplace
Andrew Jackson
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
William Henry Harrison
Berkeley Plantation
William Henry Harrison House
John Tyler
Zachary Taylor
Zachary Taylor House
Zachary Taylor National Cemetery
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce Homestead
Merrimack County Bank
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial
Lincoln Home National Historic Site
Lincoln Memorial
Mount Rushmore National Monument
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace
Ford's Theatre
Lincoln Home Site
Lincoln Memorial
William A. Petersen House
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
Andrew Johnson Birthplace - Mordecai Place
Andrew Johnson House
Ulysses S. Grant
General Grant National Memorial
Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site
General Grant National Memorial
Grant-Dent House
Ulysses S. Grant Boyhood Home
Ulysses S. Grant Cottage
Ulysses S. Grant Monument
White Haven
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield National Historic Site
Lawnfield
President James Abram Garfield Monument
Grover Cleveland
Benjamin Harrison
Benjamin Harrison House
Berkeley Plantation
William McKinley
Sgt. William McKinley Monument
Theodore Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Theodore Roosevelt Island
Ansley Wilcox House
Sagamore Hill
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft National Historic Site
Wodrow Wilson
The "Manse"
Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home
Woodrow Wilson House
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover National Historic Site
Herbert Hoover Birthplace House
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman National Historic Site
Harry S. Truman Farm Home
Harry S. Truman House
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Eisenhower Farm
Eisenhower House
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Birthplace
Lyndon Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
Jimmy Carter Boyhood Home
Jimmy Carter House
Bill Clinton
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace National Historic Site
