Herbert Hoover National Historic Site - History & Culture (U.S. National Park Service)

Take a virtual tour of Herbert Hoover National Historic Site.

The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum has extensive exhibits, research materials, and Web-based information on the life of Herbert Hoover.

National Park Service histories

Buildings in the Core Area and Jesse Hoover's Blacksmith Shop (PDF file, 11.8 MB), 1970 by NPS historian Edwin C. Bearss and NPS archaelogist Wilfred M. Husted is an official NPS study of the Blacksmith Shop, Isaac Miles Farmstead, and other historic buildings at the National Historic Site. The study includes a report on an archaelogical excavation of the site of the original Blacksmith Shop.

Cultural Landscape Report (PDF file, 21.6 MB), 1995, is an assessment of and recommendations for the park's historical landscape.

Eleven Core Area Buildings, Volume 1: Administrative and Architectural Data (PDF file, 15.6 MB), 1982 by architect William J. Wagner is an investigation of eleven buildings at Herbert Hoover National Historic Site.

Eleven Core Area Buildings, Volume 2: Appendixes (PDF file, 16.4 MB), 1982 by William J. Wagner

Historical Base Map and Ground Study (PDF file, 7.62 MB), 1968 by NPS historian Edwin C. Bearss provides a graphic, documented account of West Branch in the period 1874-1886.

Hoover Houses and Community Structures, 1971 by NPS historian Edwin C. Bearss, is an official NPS study of the Birthplace Cottage, Friends Meetinghouse, Schoolhouse, House of the Maples (Second Hoover Home), and other buildings associated with the National Historic Site.

More National Park history, research, and education resources can be found at the NPS History website.

Other Herbert Hoover sites

Camp Rapidan, now part of Shenandoah National Park, was the Hoovers' private mountain retreat during the presidential years.

The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University in California is a public policy research center devoted to advanced study of politics, economics, and international affairs. Herbert Hoover, a Stanford graduate, founded the institution.

The Hoover-Minthorn House in Newberg, Oregon was Herbert Hoover's home from 1885-1889. The house is owned and operated by The National Society of The Colonial Dames of America in the State of Oregon.

The Leonora Gwalia Historical Museum in Australia includes the site of the Historic Hoover House, commissioned and built in 1898 for Herbert Hoover when he was the manager of the Sons of Gwalia mine.

The Lou Henry and Herbert Hoover House, completed in 1920, was the Hoovers' first and only permanent residence. Herbert donated the home to Stanford University after his wife Lou died in 1944. It is not open to the public.

American Presidents Travel Itinerary

Herbert Hoover National Historic Site is one of many stops on the American Presidents Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary. The travel itinerary is compiled by the National Park Service. It highlights presidential historic sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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