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Presidential libraries: from Boston to Honolulu ... or maybe Chicago

Presidential libraries can be found coast to coast, and may even go beyond that once a site is selected for President Obama's future repository of documents and artifacts. To quickly hopscotch around to the 13 official presidential libraries and museums overseen by the National Archives, plus that of Abraham Lincoln, check out this library list.

5. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum

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President John F. Kennedy delivers his inaugural address after taking the oath of office at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. in this Jan. 20, 1961 file photo.

  • By Ross Atkin Staff writer

Website: www.jfklibrary.org/

Location: Boston (JFK's birthplace: Brookline, Mass., 1917)

Opened: 1979

Attendance: 208,313

Admission: $12 adults; $10 seniors

Bestselling biography:  鈥�Jack Kennedy 鈥� Elusive Hero鈥� by Chris Matthews

Hot selling souvenir item: 鈥淨uotations of John F. Kennedy鈥� booklet

Lesser-known facts: The Kennedy Library also houses the Ernest Hemingway Collection, which spans the author鈥檚 entire career and represents 90 percent of existing Hemingway manuscript materials.  鈥� JFK had planned for his library to be built adjacent to Harvard University, his alma mater, in Cambridge, Mass., but construction red tape and concerns some residents had about congestion caused by visitors and tourists led the Kennedy Library Corporation to abandon the plan and instead build on the Boston waterfront by the UMass-Boston campus.

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