Website: www.eisenhower.archives.gov/
Location: Abilene, Kan. (Ike's birthplace: Denison, Texas, 1890)
Opened: 1962
Attendance: 163,554
Admission: $10 adults; $9 seniors
Bestselling gift shop biography: 鈥淎t Ease鈥� by Dwight Eisenhower
Hot-selling souvenir items: Dog tags, boyhood home Christmas ornament, and the Presidential Passport that can be stamped at each of the presidential libraries.
Lesser-known facts: Five distinct buildings make up the 22-acre complex, including Ike鈥檚 boyhood home, museum, research library, visitors center, and Place of Meditation chapel 鈥� the president鈥檚 final resting place. 鈥� Plans for World War II museum were already under way prior to Eisenhower being elected president. The scope shifted after he was elected to the White House and chose his boyhood hometown as the location for his presidential library.
