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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)