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Home > What's New > Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum: Tour > Home Eisenhower Family Home
The
Eisenhower Family home was built in 1887, in typical nineteenth-century,
Midwestern style. Constructed of white pine clapboard with a cedar shingle
roof, it grew in stages from about the turn of the century until about
1915. The Eisenhower family occupied this house from 1898 until Mrs. Ida
Eisenhower's death in 1946. Her sons gave the house to the Eisenhower
The rooms of the house are small, with an eclectic mix of furnishings, reflecting the decades the Eisenhowers lived there. A front parlor was reserved for entertaining guests, and the family used the back parlor on a daily basis, pictured here. Ida's prized piano is at the left, and examples of her quilting, embroidery, and other "fanciwork," decorate the room. During her life, Ida's love of plants was evident everywhere in her home and garden.
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Foundation,
which maintained it until it was given to the federal government in 1966.
When
Dwight Eisenhower lived here, this room served as kitchen, pantry, and
dining room. Here, Ida taught all her boys how to cook, iron, and sew.
Before a bathroom was added--when Dwight was in high school--it was also
the room where six growing boys took their baths. An addition of a new
kitchen and pantry in 1915 turned this room into a separate dining area.
