Where US presidents grew up and lived

Abraham Lincoln1837–1861

📍 413 South 8th Street, Springfield, IL 62701, USA

I moved to Springfield, Illinois in 1837 when I was twenty-eight years old — a young lawyer with a borrowed horse and two saddlebags — and lived there until I left for Washington as…

Andrew Jackson1804–1845

📍 The Hermitage, 4580 Rachel's Lane, Nashville, TN 37076, USA

I was born on the frontier between the Carolinas and was an orphan by fourteen: my father died before I was born, and my mother died of disease nursing prisoners in the Revolutionary War…

Barack Obama2009–2017

📍 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, United States

Barack Obama lived in the White House from January 2009 to January 2017 with his wife, Michelle, their daughters, Malia and Sasha, and Michelle's mother, Marian Robinson. He was the first…

Bill Clinton1946–1950

📍 117 South Hervey Street, Hope, AR 71801, USA

Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Arkansas, in August 1946, three months after his father was killed in a car accident. His first home was this two-storey white…

Donald Trump1946–1950

📍 85-15 Wareham Place, Jamaica Estates, Queens, NY 11432, USA

Donald Trump spent his first four years in this two-storey Tudor-style house of brick and stucco on Wareham Place in Jamaica Estates, a leafy, affluent enclave of winding streets in Queens…

Dwight D. Eisenhower1950–1969

📍 Eisenhower National Historic Site, 1195 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg, PA 17325, USA

I grew up in a small house in Abilene, Kansas, one of a family of boys who fought each other constantly and worked the family garden to make ends meet; the open plains taught me patience…

Franklin D. Roosevelt1882–1945

📍 Springwood, 4097 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, NY 12538, USA

I was born on the 30th of January 1882 at Springwood, the family estate at Hyde Park on the Hudson River in New York, the only child of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano. Springwood was my…

George H. W. Bush1924–2018

📍 Walker's Point, Kennebunkport, ME 04046, USA

I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, but the place that held my heart from my first summer was Walker's Point, the rocky headland at Kennebunkport, Maine, where my grandfather, George…

George W. Bush1951–1955

📍 1412 West Ohio Avenue, Midland, TX 79701, USA

George W. Bush spent around four years of his childhood in this modest house on West Ohio Avenue in Midland, Texas, a booming west Texas oil town of new suburbs, dust storms and wide skies…

George Washington1738–1752

📍 268 Kings Hwy, Fredericksburg, VA 22405, USA

My father Augustine moved us to Ferry Farm on the Rappahannock when I was six years old. The house stood on the river's north bank facing Fredericksburg, and my education consisted chiefly…

Harry S. Truman1946–1952

📍 Truman Little White House, 111 Front Street, Key West, FL 33040, USA

I grew up on farms and in the small town of Independence, Missouri, where I fell for a little blonde girl named Bess Wallace in Sunday school and spent years working up the courage to court…

Jimmy Carter1928–1941

📍 Jimmy Carter Boyhood Farm, Old Plains Highway, Archery, Plains, GA 31780, USA

From the age of four until I left for college in 1941, my home was our farm at Archery, a tiny community about three miles west of Plains in south-west Georgia. There was no running water…

Joe Biden1942–1953

📍 2446 North Washington Avenue, Scranton, PA 18509, USA

Joe Biden spent his first ten years in this house at 2446 North Washington Avenue in Green Ridge, a neighbourhood of Scranton, Pennsylvania, filled with working-class Irish-Catholic…

John Adams1735–1764

📍 133 Franklin Street, Quincy, MA 02169, USA

I was born in October 1735 in this saltbox farmhouse at the foot of Penn's Hill in Braintree, now Quincy, ten miles south of Boston — a modest six-acre farm where my father, a farmer…

John F. Kennedy1961–1963

📍 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, United States

Jackie transformed the White House in the first months we lived here — she treated it as what it actually was, the most important house in America, and she believed it should look like it…

Lyndon B. Johnson1951–1973

📍 LBJ Ranch, Ranch Road 1, Stonewall, TX 78671, USA

I was born in 1908 in a small farmhouse on the banks of the Pedernales River in the Texas Hill Country, and in 1913 we moved to Johnson City, a town named after my family, into a modest…

Richard Nixon1913–1922

📍 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard, Yorba Linda, CA 92886, USA

I was born in January 1913 in the small frame house my father, Frank, built from a kit ordered out of the Sears catalogue, on twelve acres where he tried to grow lemons in Yorba Linda. I…

Ronald Reagan1920–1923

📍 816 South Hennepin Avenue, Dixon, IL 61021, USA

My father, Jack, was a shoe salesman who struggled with drink, and we moved from town to town across Illinois until we settled in Dixon, a small town on the Rock River, when I was nine. I…

Theodore Roosevelt1885–1919

📍 20 Sagamore Hill Road, Oyster Bay, New York 11771, USA

I bought Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, Long Island in 1884, the year my wife Alice and my mother both died on the same day — the 14th of February, Valentine's Day. I went west to the…

Thomas Jefferson1770–1826

📍 1050 Monticello Loop, Charlottesville, Virginia 22902, USA

I designed Monticello myself — began it in 1768 when I was twenty-five, kept redesigning it for the next forty years, and never quite finished it. The house on the little mountain above…

Ulysses S. Grant1865–1880

📍 Ulysses S. Grant Home, 500 Bouthillier Street, Galena, IL 61036, USA

I grew up in Georgetown, Ohio, the son of a tanner. I hated the stink and blood of the tannery, and my father let me earn my keep with horses instead, ploughing, hauling wood and driving…

Woodrow Wilson1921–1924

📍 2340 S Street NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA

I grew up in Augusta, Georgia, and later Columbia, South Carolina, during the Civil War and Reconstruction, the son of a Presbyterian minister whose study was my first schoolroom; one of my…