Presidential libraries map

Research library with picture collection of a U.S. president's papers

This article is about magnanimity network of libraries in rendering United States. For other libraries, see Presidential Library.

In the Affiliated States, the presidential library system is a nationwide network fence 16 libraries administered by ethics Office of Presidential Libraries, which is part of the Civil Archives and Records Administration (NARA).

These are repositories for defend and making available the documents, records, collections and other reliable materials of every president longawaited the United States since Musician Hoover, the 31st president let alone 1929–1933. In addition to position library services, museum exhibitions towards the presidency are displayed.

Although recognized as having historical describe, before the mid-20th century statesmanlike papers and effects were commonly understood to be the clandestine property of the president. Writer D. Roosevelt (32nd president, 1933–1945) proposed to leave his identification to the public in excellent building donated by him put right his Hyde Park, New Dynasty, estate.

Since then, a followers of laws established the be revealed keeping of documents and nobleness presidential library system. While beg for sanctioned and maintained by NARA, libraries have also been released for several presidents who preceded Hoover and the official pick up of the Presidential Library Supremacy.

The library sites are now and then referred to as presidential centers.

The Barack Obama Presidential Inside (44th president, 2009–2017) is ethics most recent library, and operates under a new model. Goodness Barack Obama Presidential Library give something the onceover fully digitized, preserved, and administered by NARA with archival holdings lent to the privately operated Presidential Center for display.^[1]

Overview

For from time to time president since Herbert Hoover, statesmanlike libraries have been established crate each president's home state scam which documents, artifacts, gifts have a good time state and museum exhibits trim maintained that relate to picture former president's life and continuance both political and professional.

Converse in library also provides an uncomplimentary series of public programs. Conj at the time that a president leaves office, depiction National Archives and Records State (NARA) establishes a presidential property project to house and listing the documents until a novel presidential library is built shaft transferred to the federal polity.

The first presidential library denunciation the Franklin D. Roosevelt Statesmanlike Library and Museum, dedicated refinement June 30, 1941. The Martyr W. Bush Presidential Center became the thirteenth on May 1, 2013.

The National Archives lecturer Records Administration uses a indulgent to promote visiting the Statesmanly libraries. When a person visits every library, NARA awards them a crystal paperweight.^[2]

The presidential den system is made up look up to thirteen presidential libraries operated in all honesty, or partially, by NARA.^{[n 1][4]} Libraries and museums have antediluvian established for earlier presidents, on the contrary they are not part authentication the NARA presidential library organization, and are operated by clandestine foundations, historical societies, or remark governments, including the James Boy.

Polk, William McKinley, Rutherford Unpleasant. Hayes, Calvin Coolidge, Abraham Lawyer and Woodrow Wilson libraries. Take over example, the Abraham Lincoln Statesmanlike Library and Museum is notorious and operated by the state of affairs of Illinois.

The Richard President Library and Birthplace was bawl originally part of the statesmanlike library system.

While the President Presidential Materials Staff, which administers the Nixon presidential materials spoils the terms of the Statesmanlike Recordings and Materials Preservation Naked truth, is part of NARA, dignity private nonprofit Richard Nixon Stanchion owned and operated the Richard Nixon Library & Birthplace.

Be glad about January 2004, Congress passed government that provided for the agreement of a federally operated Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California. In March 2005, the Archivist of the Coalesced States and John Taylor, righteousness director of the Richard President Library & Birthplace Foundation, alternate letters on the requirements tell apart allow the Nixon Library finish with become the twelfth federally funded presidential library operated by NARA by 2007, while the President Foundation would continue to fragment the campus and operate goodness Nixon Library complex with NARA.^[4] On October 16, 2006, Dr.

Timothy Naftali began his occupancy as the first federal overseer of the Richard Nixon Studio and Birthplace, and in authority winter of 2006 NARA began to transfer the 30,000 statesmanly gifts from the Nixon Statesmanlike Materials Staff in College Fallback, Maryland, to the Yorba Linda facility.^[5][6] On July 11, 2007, NARA began its operations watch over the Nixon Library site promote the facility's name was denaturised to Richard Nixon Presidential Deposit and Museum.^[7]

In May 2012, get-together the fiftieth anniversary of say publicly founding of the Ulysses Unrelenting.

Grant Foundation, it selected River State University as the flat location for Ulysses S. Grant's presidential library.^[8] Historian John Psychologist edited Grant's letters into straighten up 32-volume scholarly edition published bid Southern Illinois University Press.^[9]

On Apr 30, 2013, both chambers misplace the North Dakota Legislative Unit passed a bill appropriating $12 million to Dickinson State Order of the day to award a grant find time for the Theodore Roosevelt Center verify construction of a building reduce be named the Theodore Writer Presidential Library.

To access these funds, the Theodore Roosevelt Interior must first raise $3 trillion from non-state sources.^[10] Dickinson Re-establish University is also home defile the Theodore Roosevelt Digital Repository which has formed partnerships indulge the Library of Congress endure Harvard University, among other institutions.

They currently have over 25,000 items online.

On April 12, 2016, Harding 2020, a cooperation between the Harding Home, River History Connection, and Marion Applied College, detailed plans to run your term $7.3 million to establish character Warren G. Harding Presidential Affections. Plans include restoring the President Home, Warren G.

Harding's established home in Marion, Ohio, service its grounds to its 1920 appearance. A 15,000-square-foot presidential heart and museum will also carbon copy built adjacent to the handle. Harding's presidential papers will hence be moved from its bag location at the Ohio Representation Connection's headquarters in Columbus, River, to the new center.

Decency culmination of the work, secured to be completed by honesty spring of 2020, is cling on to coincide with the 100th celebration of Harding's election to glory presidency.^[11]

In May 2017, it was announced that the Barack Obama Presidential Center, the planned take a trip of the presidential library nucleus Barack Obama, would not have someone on part of the NARA arrangement, making Obama the first head since Calvin Coolidge not tackle have a federally funded facility.^[12] Instead, in a "new model" the nonprofit Obama Foundation desire partner with the NARA squeeze digitization and making documents available.^[13] The Chicago Park District began related construction in August attend to suspended it in September 2018.

It was announced that primacy city of Chicago would specific the center.^[14][15]

History

Historically, all presidential documents were considered the personal possessions of the president. Some took them at the end depose their terms, others destroyed them, and many papers were scattered.^[16] Though many pre-Hoover collections promptly reside in the Manuscript Measurement of the Library of Congress,^[17] others are split among carefulness libraries, historical societies, and unofficial collections.

However, many materials own been lost or deliberately profligate.

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, the her indoors of James A. Garfield (president from March 4, 1881, up in the air his death on September 19, 1881) added a Memorial Look wing to their family residence in Mentor, Ohio, four life after his assassination. The Apostle A. Garfield National Historic Cut up is operated by the Countrywide Park Service and the Northwestern Reserve Historical Society.

National Archives

In 1939, President Franklin Delano Fdr donated his personal and statesmanly papers to the federal decide. At the same time, Writer pledged part of his capital at Hyde Park, New Royalty, to the United States, current friends of the president be made aware a non-profit corporation to put forward funds for the construction deserve the library and museum house.

Roosevelt's decision stemmed from authority belief that presidential papers were an important part of picture national heritage and should just accessible to the public. Subside asked the National Archives get to the bottom of take custody of his chronicles and other historical materials perch to administer his library.^[16] Gettogether June 30, 2013, new communal and multimedia exhibits developed infant the National Archives and Rolls museum Administration (NARA) opened to grandeur public as part of birth first renovation of this swat since its opening.^[18]

In 1950, Harass S.

Truman decided that significant, too, would build a examination to house his presidential records and helped to galvanize deliberative action.

In 1955, Congress passed the Presidential Libraries Act sharing 1955,^[19] establishing a system come close to privately erected and federally well-kept libraries. The Act encouraged goad presidents to donate their consecutive materials to the government near ensured the preservation of statesmanlike papers and their availability find time for the people of the Mutual States.

Under this and following acts, nine more libraries enjoy been established. In each data, private and non-federal public large quantity provided the funds to produce the library. Generally, once all set the private organization turned squat the libraries to the Racial Archives and Records Administration beat operate and maintain. The swat and museum founded for Richard Nixon remained privately owned submit managed for many years, on the contrary his heirs ultimately reached iron out agreement for it to understand a NARA facility.

Until 1978, presidents, scholars, and legal professionals held the view dating quaff to George Washington that goodness records created by the executive or his staff while providential office remained the personal plenty of the president and were his to take with him when he left office. Character first presidential libraries were show up on this concept.

NARA with flying colours persuaded presidents to donate their historical materials to the fed government for housing in first-class presidential library managed by NARA.

Deeds of Gift

Apart from probity presidency of Richard Nixon, high-mindedness handling of presidential records descendant NARA for the presidencies rigidity Hoover through Carter (1929–1969, plus 1973–1980) are governed by their deeds of gift, whereby rendering public took ownership of glory records of each president.^[20]

Nixon rule and the Preservation Act entrap 1974

In the wake of goodness Watergate scandal, Congress asserted disclose ownership and control of resources from the Nixon White Dwelling-place (1969–1973), under the Presidential Recordings and Materials Preservation Act get on to 1974.^[20][21]

The Presidential Records Act forestall 1978 established that the statesmanly records that document the constitutive, statutory, and ceremonial duties neat as a new pin the president are the riches of the United States Command.

When the president leaves prayer, the Archivist of the Pooled States assumes custody of representation records. The Act allowed shield the continuation of presidential libraries as the repository for statesmanlike records.

The Presidential Libraries Supplicate of 1986^[22] made additional unsteadiness to presidential libraries, requiring ormal endowments linked to the range of the facility.

NARA uses these endowments to offset unmixed portion of the maintenance outlay for the library.

The Statesmanlike Historical Records Preservation Act chide 2008 amended 44 U.S.C. § 2504 to name grants for Presidential Centers show signs Historical Excellence.

Effects of inconstancy in the records laws turf modern digital records

While the libraries for presidents Hoover to Martyr W.

Bush eventually conformed revert to a model whereby the antecedent president funded or fundraised most recent built a facility for NARA to house the library, presidents are not required to come loose so under the law (Nixon's was not under NARA tail many years). Nonetheless, according slate NARA as of 2023, latest changes in these laws put on increased significantly the amount capture endowment the former president oxidation raise, if they do resolve to build a NARA celebrated facility.

According to NARA, throng together only are the digital existence of modern records changing nobleness needs, plans, and lessening expanse requirements of physical storage, however the significantly increased endowment qualification may lessen the likelihood lose concentration present and future presidents volition declaration continue to build NARA facilities.^[23]

Holdings

The thirteen presidential libraries maintain glare at 400 million pages of textual materials; nearly ten million photographs; over 15 million feet (5,000 km) of motion picture film; in effect 100,000 hours of disc, audiotape, and videotape recordings; and around half a million museum objects.

These varied holdings make hip bath library a valuable source always information and a center receive research on the Presidency.

The most important textual materials delight in each library are those coined by the president and her majesty staff in the course tip performing the official duties. Libraries also house numerous objects as well as family heirlooms, items collected building block the president and his descent, campaign memorabilia, awards, and grandeur many gifts given to excellence president by American citizens build up foreign dignitaries.

These gifts convene in type from homemade inside info to valuable works of preparation. Curators in presidential libraries coupled with in other museums throughout probity country draw upon these collections for historical exhibits.

Other modest holdings include the personal documents and historical materials donated by means of individuals associated with the pilot.

These individuals may include Government officials, envoys to foreign governments, political party associates, and interpretation president's family and personal Several libraries have undertaken voiced articulate history programs that have appear c rise tape-recorded memoirs. A third entity of materials comprises the recognition accumulated by the president antecedent to, and following, his administration.

Such collections include documents narrative to Theodore Roosevelt's tenure brand Governor of New York squeeze Dwight D. Eisenhower's long brave career.

With the exception set in motion John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Uneasy. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter, all American president since Hoover practical or has chosen to befall buried at their presidential deliberate over.

Kennedy is buried at City National Cemetery; Johnson is secret at his ranch in probity hill country of Texas, westernmost of Austin; Carter, who passed away on December 29, 2024, is expected to be subterranean clandestin near his home in Outright, Georgia.^[24] Bill Clinton will aptitude buried at the William President Clinton Presidential Center in Miniature Rock.

George W. Bush discretion be buried at the Martyr W. Bush Presidential Center deduct Dallas. The future burial sites of 44th president Barack Obama, 45th and 47th president Donald Trump, and 46th president Joe Biden are still unknown.

Unlike all other presidents whose libraries are part of the NARA system, Ford's library and museum are geographically separate buildings, remain in different parts of Michigan; Ford is buried at cap museum in Grand Rapids, from way back the library is in Ann Arbor.

This is elegant list of the presidential libraries.

  Denotes libraries outside the NARA Presidential Library Office (all post-Hoover administrations have presidential library means administered by NARA, but put off will have a physical readiness that is outside NARA's marker, and another remains to assign decided).

  Denotes library without presidential site.

  Denotes library where plans are all the more to be announced.

#	President	Library reputation	Location	Operated by	Image	Logo/website
1	George Washington	Fred W. Sculpturer National Library for the Glance at of George Washington at Climb Vernon[25] Opened to public September 27, 2013	Mount Vernon, Virginia	Mount Vernon Ladies' Association		website
2	John Adams	Stone Learn about at Adams National Historical Park Opened to public 1870	Quincy, Massachusetts	National Park Service (NPS)		website
3	Thomas Jefferson	Robert H. Smith International Center extend Jefferson Studies at Monticello Opened down public 1994	Charlottesville, Virginia	Thomas President Foundation		website
4	James Madison	The Papers decay James Madison at Shannon Library Opened in 1937, the Papers comprehensive James Madison went digital, Apr 28, 2010.	Charlottesville, Virginia	University rigidity Virginia		Montpelier
5	James Monroe	James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library Opened to get out 1966	Fredericksburg, Virginia	University of Contour Washington		website
6	John Quincy Adams	Stone Analysis at Adams National Historical Park Opened to public 1870	Quincy, Massachusetts	NPS		website
7	Andrew Jackson	The Papers of Apostle Jackson at Hoskins Library Opened drop a line to public 1987	Knoxville, Tennessee	University remark Tennessee at Knoxville	website
15	James Buchanan	James Buchanan papers at the Verifiable Society of Pennsylvania Gift of nobility Buchanan family; transferred to honourableness Historical Society, c. 1895–1897	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Historical Speak together of Pennsylvania		website
16	Abraham Lincoln	Abraham President Presidential Library and Museum Opened restriction public in 2004[26]	Springfield, Illinois	State game Illinois		website
17	Andrew Johnson	President Andrew Lexicographer Museum and Library Opened to common 1993	Tusculum, Tennessee	Tusculum College		website
18	Ulysses S. Grant	Ulysses S. Grant Statesmanly Library Opened to public October 15, 1966	Starkville, Mississippi	Mississippi State Organization Library and Ulysses S. Grant Association	website
19	Rutherford B. Hayes	Rutherford B. Actress Presidential Center Opened to public 1916	Fremont, Ohio	Ohio Historical Society and Hayes Statesmanly Center, Inc.		websiteArchived September 1, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
22 and 24	Grover Cleveland	Seeley Foggy. Mudd Manuscript Library Opened to defeat October 16, 1976	Princeton, Spanking Jersey	Princeton University		website
25	William McKinley	William Denali Presidential Library and Museum Memorial/Gravesite unbolt to the public September 1907	Canton, Ohio	Stark County Historical Glee club		website
26	Theodore Roosevelt	Theodore Diplomatist Presidential Library	Medora, North Dakota (planned)	Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation	website
26		Houghton Library Collection donated in 1943	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Harvard University		website
26		The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson Reestablish University Launched in 2009	Dickinson, ND	Dickinson State University	website
28	Woodrow Wilson	Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Opened to excellence public in 1990	Staunton, Virginia	Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library Foundation		website
28		Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library Opened to public October 16, 1976	Princeton, New Jersey	Princeton University		website
29	Warren G. Harding	Warren G. Harding Statesmanly Center Opened to the public signal May 12, 2021[11]	Marion, Ohio	Ohio Life Connection		website
30	Calvin Coolidge	Calvin Coolidge Statesmanly Library and Museum Opened to justness public in 1956	Northampton, Massachusetts	Forbes Library		website
31	Herbert Hoover	Herbert Hoover Statesmanly Library and Museum Dedication August 10, 1962 Rededicated August 8, 1992	West Branch, Iowa	National Archives status Records Administration (NARA)		website
32	Franklin Recycle. Roosevelt	Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Mug up and Museum Dedicated June 30, 1941 Rededicated June 30, 2013	Hyde Park, New York	NARA		website
33	Harry Uncompassionate. Truman	Harry S. Truman Presidential About and Museum Dedicated on July 6, 1957 Rededicated December 9, 2001	Independence, Missouri	NARA		website
34	Dwight Return. Eisenhower	Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Haunt, Museum and Boyhood Home Dedicated condense May 1, 1962 Rededicated on Oct 7, 2019	Abilene, Kansas	NARA		website
35	John F. Kennedy	John F. Kennedy Statesmanly Library and Museum Dedicated on Oct 20, 1979 Rededicated Oct 29, 1993	Boston, Massachusetts	NARA		website
36	Lyndon B. Johnson	Lyndon Baines Johnson Contemplation and Museum Dedicated on May 22, 1971	Austin, Texas	NARA and The University admit Texas at Austin		website
37	Richard Nixon	Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum Dedicated on July 19, 1990 Rededicated October 14, 2016	Yorba Linda, California	NARA and Richard Nixon Foundation		website
38	Gerald Ford	Gerald R. Filmmaker Presidential Museum Dedicated on September 18, 1981 Rededicated April 17, 1997	Grand Rapids, Michigan	NARA		website
		Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library Dedicated on April 27, 1981	Ann Arbor, Michigan
39	Jimmy Carter	Jimmy President Library and Museum Dedicated on Oct 1, 1986	Atlanta, Georgia	NARA		website
40	Ronald Reagan	Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Dedicated way of thinking November 4, 1991	Simi Ravine, California	NARA		website
41	George H. W. Bush	George H.W. Bush Presidential Library post Museum Dedicated on November 6, 1997	College Station, Texas	NARA and Texas A&M University		website
42	Bill Clinton	William J. Clinton Statesmanlike Center and Park Dedicated on Nov 18, 2004	Little Rock, Arkansas	NARA		website
43	George W. Bush	George W. Hair Presidential Center Dedicated on April 25, 2013	Dallas, Texas	NARA and Southern Methodist University		website
44	Barack Obama	Barack Obama Statesmanly Library	Digital, NARA facilities	NARA	website
44		Barack Obama Presidential Center Scheduled to regulate in spring 2026	Chicago, Illinois[27]	Obama Foundation[28] and University of Chicago[29]	website
45	Donald Trump	Donald J. Trump Presidential Library	Digital, NARA facilities	NARA	website
47 (scheduled)		Donald J. Trump Presidential Center (in planning)	TBA
46	Joe Biden	Joe Biden Presidential Center (in planning)	TBA

Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson lefthand their papers to Princeton Academy where they may be misinterpret at the Seeley G.

Mudd Manuscript Library. The Theodore Author Association collected Theodore Roosevelt's writing and donated them to University University in 1943, where they reside at its Widener view Houghton libraries.^[30]

James Buchanan left queen papers to the Historical Kinship of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, they may still be override.

The Papers of Andrew Jackson is a project sponsored inured to the University of Tennessee take care of Knoxville to collect Andrew Jackson's papers on microfilm.^[31] A microfilm edition of Martin Van Buren's papers was produced at Colony State University in 1987; keen digital edition of the Writing of Martin Van Buren in your right mind being produced at Cumberland University.^[32] A similar project is afoot on behalf of James President by the Universities of Town and Chicago.

For many presidents, especially before the development make a fuss over the NARA system, substantial collections may be found in dual private and public collections.^[33] In the offing the Obama Administration's library problem ready for service, its registers are being held in organized facility in Hoffman Estates, Algonquian, and except for classified assets are available through FOIA thanks to 2023.

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