Last updated: August 21, 2017
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Documenting Presidential Homes
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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 been home to every U.S. president except George Washington.
The National Park Service's preservation of presidential sites extends beyond park boundaries. Many of the National Park Service's cultural resource programs also have ties with the presidency, including the National Register of Historic Places, the National Historic Landmarks Program, and Teaching with Historic Places lesson plans.
One of the most popular NPS programs with presidential connections 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 multi-format 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 digitized 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 and drawings and photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey. The American Presidents Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary includes a list of additional sites associated with US presidents.
Homes of the Presidents
This list includes only homes that are administered or documented by the National Park Service, not all presidential homes. Many other presidential sites across the United States are managed by private organizations.
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George Washington |
George Washington's Birthplace National Monument |
George Washington Memorial Parkway |
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John Adams |
Adams Mansion Adams Mansion Flower Garden John Adams Birthplace |
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Thomas Jefferson |
Jefferson National Expansion Memorial |
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James Madison |
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James Monroe |
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John Quincy Adams |
Adams Mansion |
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Andrew Jackson |
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Martin Van Buren |
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William Henry Harrison |
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John Tyler |
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Zachary Taylor |
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Franklin Pierce |
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James Buchanan |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park |
Abraham Lincoln Birthplace |
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Andrew Johnson |
Andrew Johnson Birthplace - Mordecai Place |
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Ulysses S. Grant |
General Grant National Memorial |
General Grant National Memorial |
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Rutherford B. Hayes |
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James A. Garfield |
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Grover Cleveland |
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Benjamin Harrison |
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William McKinley |
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Theodore Roosevelt |
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site |
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William Howard Taft |
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Woodrow Wilson |
The "Manse" |
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Herbert Hoover |
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Franklin D. Roosevelt |
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Harry S. Truman |
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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John F. Kennedy |
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Lyndon Johnson |
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Jimmy Carter |
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Bill Clinton |
President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace National Historic Site |