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Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home, Abilene, KS
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Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home

Explore museum exhibits on Eisenhower's life and presidency, tour his boyhood home and visit his burial chapel.

200 SE 4th St · Abilene, KS

About Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood Home

This 22-acre campus in Abilene holds the Eisenhower presidential library, a museum on his life and presidency, a visitors center and the house where he lived from 1898 to 1911. Boyhood home tours are limited to 10 guests each. A chapel called the Place of Meditation is the burial site of President Eisenhower, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower and their first-born son, Doud, and you can walk the grounds on your own.

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