Spiegel Grove

Spiegel Grove (Rutherford B. Hayes Summer Home)
Spiegel Grove is located in Ohio
Spiegel Grove
Spiegel Grove is located in the United States
Spiegel Grove
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LocationFremont, Ohio
Coordinates41°20′29″N 83°07′48″W / 41.34139°N 83.13000°W / 41.34139; -83.13000
Area25 acres (100,000 m2)[2]
Built1873
ArchitectSardis Birchard
NRHP reference No.66000624[1]
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 15, 1966
Designated NHLJanuary 29, 1964[3]
Rutherford and Lucy Hayes' grave at Spiegel Grove

Spiegel Grove, also known as Spiegel Grove State Park, Rutherford B. Hayes House, Rutherford B. Hayes Summer Home and Rutherford B. Hayes State Memorial was the estate of Rutherford B. Hayes, the 19th president of the United States, located at the corner of Hayes and Buckland Avenues in Fremont, Ohio. Spiegel is the German and Dutch word for mirror. The traditional story is that the estate was named by Hayes' uncle Sardis Birchard, who first built it for his own residence. He named it for the reflective pools of water that collected on the property after a rain shower.

Rutherford Hayes inherited the estate and moved there in 1873. He died in 1893 and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery next to his wife who had died in 1889. Following the gift of this home to the state of Ohio for the Spiegel Grove State Park, their bodies were reinterred at Spiegel Grove in 1915. They are buried at a memorial on the property. The Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, established in 1916, is also located here.

"Old Whitey", a war horse that served during the Civil War and belonged to then-Major (later Major General) Hayes, became the mascot of the 23rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. The horse was buried at Spiegel Grove upon his death in 1879, with a grave marker reading Old Whitey A Hero of Nineteen Battles 1861–1865.[4]

Spiegel Grove was designated as a National Historic Landmark on January 29, 1964.[2][3]

On October 15, 1966, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ a b Joseph Scott Mendinghall (1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory–Nomination: "Spiegel Grove," The Rutherford B. Hayes Estate / Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center" (pdf). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help) and Accompanying nine photos, from 1877, 1880, and 1974 (32 KB)
  3. ^ a b "Spiegel Grove (Rutherford B. Hayes Summer Home)". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved April 9, 2008.
  4. ^ Hoogenboom, Ari. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 1995, p. 173.