First Ladies National Historic Site | |
Location | 205 and 331 Market Avenue South, Canton, Ohio |
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Coordinates | 40°47′48″N 81°22′31″W / 40.79667°N 81.37528°W |
Visitation | 11,187 (2023)[2] |
Website | First Ladies National Historic Site |
NRHP reference No. | 01000286 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | January 31, 2001[1] |
Designated NHS | October 11, 2000 |
First Ladies National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in Canton, Ohio. During her residency in Washington, D.C. Mary Regula, wife of Ohio representative Ralph Regula, spoke regularly about the nation's first ladies. Recognizing the paucity of research materials available she created a board to raise funds and for a historian to assemble a comprehensive bibliography on American first ladies. From these inspirations came a National First Ladies’ Library, established in 1996, and the First Ladies National Historic Site.[3]