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Wooden benches and an iron stove provide simple furnishings for the restored Friends Meetinghouse.

Herbert Hoover, Lou Henry Hoover, and their family shaped this presidential memorial area to present a fuller understanding of Hoover's life.

The park's historic structures, like the Birthplace Cottage, the Blacksmith Shop, the Schoolhouse, and the Friends Meetinghouse, symbolize American ideals of community, hard work, entrepreneurship, education, and religion as Herbert Hoover saw them and lived them. As additions to the historic landscape of Herbert's early years, the Gravesite, the Statue of Isis, and the Presidential Library and Museum connect his childhood to his later accomplishments.