President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site, History museum in Hope, United States.
The President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site is a two-and-a-half-story house at 117 South Hervey Street in Hope, Arkansas, built in 1917 for Dr. H. S. Garrett. Its square plan holds four rooms per floor, and Bill Clinton spent the first four years of his life here with his maternal grandparents, Edith Grisham and James Eldridge Cassidy.
Built in 1917, the house was home to his earliest years while he lived with his maternal grandparents. The structure was preserved as a historical record of his origins before his family moved away.
The home reflects how small-town life and family bonds shaped the person who would later lead the country. Visitors can observe the everyday domestic setting that surrounded his earliest years.
The house at 117 South Hervey Street is a unit of the National Park System; tours were long run by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation before the 2010 designation. The site is also a stop on the "Billgrimage" route, which links it with the Clinton House in Fayetteville and the Clinton Presidential Library. Check current tour arrangements before travelling.
The site is a stop on the "Billgrimage", a route that also takes in the Clinton House in Fayetteville and the Bill Clinton Presidential Library. The 2010 designation was first proposed by Arkansas Senator Mark Pryor, and Bill Clinton and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar dedicated the house on April 16, 2011.
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