Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums
General information
Location	Fremont, Ohio, United States
Coordinates	41°20′30″N 83°07′46″W / 41.34167°N 83.12944°W / 41.34167; -83.12944
Named for	Rutherford B. Hayes
Construction started	1912
Inaugurated	Dedicated on 1916
Management	Hayes Presidential Center, Inc.
Technical details
Size	52,640 square feet (4,890 m2)
Website
www.rbhayes.org

This article is part of a series about Rutherford B. Hayes
Early life Civil war service Public image Spiegel Grove 29th and 32nd Governor of Ohio Governorship Gubernatorial elections 1867 1869 1875 19th President of the United States Presidency Inauguration Foreign policy Cabinet appointment Judicial appointment Great Railroad Strike (1877) Bland–Allison Act Posse Comitatus Act Meeker Massacre Presidential campaigns 1876 convention election Electoral Commission Compromise of 1877 Post-presidency Death Presidential Center
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The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center is a complex comprising several buildings related to the life and presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes. It is the first presidential library, built in 1916, and one of three such libraries for US presidents during the 19th century.

Located in Fremont, Ohio, the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center comprises the Rutherford B. Hayes Museum and Library and Spiegel Grove, an estate encompassing the Hayes home, residence to several generations of the Hayes family. Opened in 1916, the Rutherford B. Hayes Center Library was one of the first presidential libraries.^[1] The center is supported by the private foundations, the Ohio Historical Society and Hayes Presidential Center Inc.

The library holds the 12,000 volume personal library of Rutherford B. Hayes, as well as materials relating to his military and political career, particularly of his presidency from 1877 to 1881.^[1] It also contains 70,000 volumes plus newspapers and journals from the time of the Civil War to the eve of World War I.

The library was built by the state of Ohio in 1916, and was expanded in 1922 and in 1968.^[2] As of 2020, two descendants of President Hayes were serving on the Board of Trustees.^[3]

The library has continued its special interest in Rutherford B. Hayes and concentrates on the history of the U.S. from 1850 to 1917, especially the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Spanish–American War, railroad, education, black history and Indian/government relations. Second, the history of Ohio and the Sandusky River Valley and the Northwest are of interest. There is a large genealogical collection. The library contains history books on nearly every county of Ohio, but also on counties of many other states of the United States^[1]

• Presidential memorials in the United States

• Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
• Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Photo Gallery
• "Life Portrait of Rutherford B. Hayes", from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits, broadcast from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, July 19, 1999