Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Birthplace
Birthplace: East William Street, Delaware, OH (Marker)
Visited: 5/31/11
Log Excerpt: "Further south brought us to Delaware and the Rutherford B. Hayes birthplace. Not nearly as impressive as Spiegel Grove this consisted of a marker between the sidewalk and the pumps of a BP gas station!"
Home
Home: Spiegel Grove, 1337 Hayes Avenue, Fremont, OH
Visited: 5/31/11
Log Excerpt: "... then found the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center in Fremont (also the Spiegel Grove NHL). The Rutherford B. Hayes Center Library was the first presidential library and one of only three for a 19th-century president. President Hayes inherited the property known as Spiegel Grove from his maternal uncle, Sardis Birchard, who purchased the property in 1846 and built the house in 1859. We got tickets to the house tour, then looked around the museum for a while and photoed the exterior of the home. “Rud” Hayes’s Civil War service and his duties as a United States Congressman and governor of Ohio prevented the Hayes family from making Spiegel Grove their permanent residence until 1873. Hayes descendents lived in the home into the 1960s. The home is still undergoing reconstruction to its appearance when RBH lived there (still needs wallpaper, paintings, etc.) but otherwise is very impressive, with a really nice library (RBH collected many books). After the tour we walked a little on the very pretty grounds with big old trees to the gravesite of Rutherford and wife Lucy."
White House
Home: White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC
Visited: 8/1968, 10/16/2022 etc. Photo 10/16/2022
White House Residence: 1877-1881
Gravesite
Gravesite: Hayes Presidential Center, Spiegel Grove State Park, 1337 Hayes Avenue, Fremont, OH
Visited: 5/31/11
Log Excerpt: See Home - Spiegel Grove
Museum/Library
Museum/Library: Rutherford B. Hayes Museum and Library, 1337 Hayes Avenue, Fremont, OH
Visited: 5/31/11
Log Excerpt: See Home - Spiegel Grove