William Jennings Bryan Boyhood Home | |
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| Location | 408 S. Broadway, Salem, Illinois |
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| Coordinates | 38°37′42″N 88°56′53″W / 38.62833°N 88.94806°W |
| Area | 0.4 acres (0.16 ha) |
| Built | 1852 |
| NRHP reference No. | 75000668[1] |
| Added to NRHP | February 18, 1975 |
The William Jennings Bryan Boyhood Home is a historic house located at 408 S. Broadway in Salem, Illinois. The house was the birthplace and boyhood home of William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic Party nominee for president. The two-story frame house was built in 1852 for Silas Bryan, an Illinois State Senator and father of William Jennings Bryan. William Jennings Bryan was born in the home in 1860.[2]
The city of Salem operates the home as a museum, including information and memorabilia about Bryan, his politics and his times. Bryan himself donated the house to the city in the early 1900s, as he wished for it to become a museum.[2] The house features two main rooms in the front, a kitchen and a dining room in back, and three bedrooms upstairs.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.[1]
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b Evans, Clyde E. (April 18, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Home and birthplace of William Jennings Bryan" (PDF). National Park Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 27, 2014.