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Historic house in Kansas, United States
United States historic place
The
Eisenhower Home
in
Abilene, Kansas
, at the
Eisenhower Presidential Center
, was the house where U.S. President
Dwight D. Eisenhower
lived with his five brothers from 1898 to 1911, when he entered the
U.S. Military Academy
at West Point at age 20.
In 1898 Eisenhower's father, David Jacob Eisenhower, and his wife
Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower
, bought the house from David's uncle Abraham. David and Ida lived in the house until their deaths in 1942 and 1946.
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The two-story wood-frame house has a hipped roof with a central chimney. There is a one-story addition on the east side, a porch on the south side, which is the front of the house, and a small porch on the west side. The lower level has a parlor, dining room and kitchen. The upper level has two large bedrooms and one small bedroom.
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After Ida's death the Eisenhower brothers gave the house and its contents to a memorial foundation for preservation. The house is operated as a museum on the grounds of the
Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home
, which also houses Dwight and
Mamie Eisenhower
's gravesite.
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The house was placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
on January 25, 1971.
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