Klein Shop

The former ranch maintenance building now houses a collection of the president's cars.

NPS Photo / Jack Burton

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Food/Drink - Vending Machine/Self Service, Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Restroom

For a decade beginning in the late 1950s, the maintenance supervisor—Lawrence Klein—operated out of a small building west of the Texas White House. It was remembered as a "dilapidated frame eyesore." Soon, plans were drawn up for a new maintenance shop made of corrugated metal, situated just west of the Martin Barn.

The spacious new shop, completed in late 1967, contained an office, tool room, workbench, service entrance, paint storage locker, and a restroom. Like other buildings on the property, the new shop was painted "LBJ Green."

In 2015, the National Park Service re-purposed the historic structure as a small museum to house some of the president's cars and renamed the building the Klein Shop after its original foreman.