Description: Caption reads: "Hayes Mansion, Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio (Sandusky Co - District 9). Home of Rutherford B. Hayes, president of U. S., maintained today as it was when Hayes lived here during the latter part of his life. With the Hayes Memorial and Spiegel Grove, the surrounding grounds, if forms a State Park." Hayes House, built in 1859, is a large red brick Victorian style structure in located at 1337 Hayes Avenue in Fremont Ohio. It stands in Spiegel Grove State Park, the former Hayes Estate. It was the residence of the former President from 1873 to 1893. The 2-story mansion, constructed between 1859 and 1863 has 8 bedrooms and a large veranda. The home was remodeled twice, in 1880 (adding a large library and an impressive staircase leading to a rooftop observation area, as well as many other improvements) and 1889 (replacing and enlarging one wing). Hayes was the nineteenth (19th) President of the United States, serving from 1877-1881. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F02_001_1
Subjects: State Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Spiegel Grove (Fremont, Ohio); Hayes Presidential Center (Fremont, Ohio); Rutherford B. Hayes Memorial Library (Fremont, Ohio); Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image depicts an ivy-covered Spiegel Grove, home of Rutherford B. Hayes in Fremont, Ohio. Spiegel Grove was built around 1860 by Sardis Birchard, uncle of Rutherford B. Hayes. The original two story, brick home had many bedrooms and a wrap around porch. After inheriting the home, Hayes expanded the house by 5 rooms in 1882. It was then a four story home. In 1889, it was expanded with 6 more rooms. Spiegel Grove was placed in the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06431
Subjects: Spiegel Grove (Fremont, Ohio); Hayes, R. B. (Rutherford Birchard), 1822-1893; Presidents--Dwellings--Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Handwritten on reverse: "Hayes Memorial" The Hayes Memorial was built in 1915, when the Hayes estate was turned over to the state and was expanded in 1922 and again in 1968. The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center is a complex comprising several buildings related to the life and presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes. Located in Fremont, Ohio, the 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 the first presidential library and one of only three for a 19th-century president. 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. It also contains 70,000 volumes plus newspapers and journals from the time of the Civil War to the eve of World War I. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B09F10_043_1
Subjects: State Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Spiegel Grove (Fremont, Ohio); Hayes Presidential Center (Fremont, Ohio); Rutherford B. Hayes Memorial Library (Fremont, Ohio); Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is an exterior view of Spiegel Grove, the former home of U.S. president Rutherford B. Hayes, in Fremont, Ohio. A portion of another building is visible on the photograph's right side. Spiegel Grove is the former home of President Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893). The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center currently occupies the site, which is open to the public under the direction of the Ohio Historical Society. Spiegel Grove was constructed from 1859-1863. (“Spiegel” is the German word for “mirror,” and the home is named after pools of water that form on the estate’s grounds after a rain.) The home’s original owner was Sardis Birchard, Hayes’s uncle and guardian, who used Spiegel Grove as a summer residence. Hayes became Spiegel Grove’s owner in 1873, and he made it his permanent home. Upon completion of his presidency in 1881, Hayes expanded the home to make room for his 12,000-volume library, to provide additional room for guests, and also to install indoor plumbing. In 1889, Hayes ordered the construction of another addition to make room for his children and grandchildren who commonly visited. This final addition created a thirty-one-room mansion. Both Hayes and his wife, Lucy Hayes, died at Spiegel Grove and are interred on the grounds. Spiegel Grove remained in the Hayes family until the first decade of the 1900s, when the family deeded the property to the State of Ohio. In 1916, a museum and library opened on the site, commemorating Hayes’s political and military contributions to Ohio and to the United States. This was the first presidential library commemorating a United States president. Spiegel Grove is on the National Register of Historic Places. This image of Spiegel Grove was among the photographs produced by the Federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) between 1935 and 1943. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06393
Subjects: Spiegel Grove (Fremont, Ohio); Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893; United States. Work Progress Administration; National Register of Historic Places; Fremont (Ohio)
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: “Hayes Home Fremont, O. Aug 10-39. Keep this for copy” The Hayes House was built in 1859 as a summer home for Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822-1893), 19th President of the United States. Built as a two story brick mansion, the Victoria home featured many bedrooms and a wrap-around porch. The Hayes House stands on 25 acres of wooded land that were part of the President's estate on Spiegel Grove. Hayes and his wife, Lucy retired at the estate following their residence in the White House and both spent their last days in the home. Numerous trees shade the property, giving it an aura of wealth and elegance. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F07_002_1
Subjects: Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893; Spiegel Grove (Fremont, Ohio); Hayes Presidential Center (Fremont, Ohio); Presidents -- Dwellings -- Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio)