Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home

Late in 1898 David and Ida Eisenhower moved their boys into a six-room house on Southeast Fourth Street, bought from David's brother Abraham. It came with most of a block, two and a half to three acres holding a barn, a chicken house, a smokehouse, an orchard, a strawberry patch and a big kitchen garden east of the house. Grandfather Jacob Eisenhower moved in in 1900, and two bedrooms were added on the east side; he lived there until his death in 1906. A bathroom went in about 1908, and a small kitchen, pantry and closed back porch in 1915. Dwight lived here until 1911.

When Ida died in 1946, her six sons gave the place to the Eisenhower Foundation, and it opened in 1947, first as a memorial to the veterans of the Second World War. The furniture is the family's own, set as it was at her death, and the wallpaper in the parlors, dining room and hall matches what hung there in 1946. Eisenhower laid the museum's cornerstone in June 1952, just before he announced for president, and the library was dedicated on May 1, 1962. He, Mamie and their first son, Doud, lie in the chapel called the Place of Meditation.

Home tours take ten people at a time, with tickets sold only on site. The library says tours are paused for maintenance and expected to resume in late November 2026; a video tour runs daily in the library auditorium. The grounds, library exhibits and Place of Meditation need no ticket.