William Jennings Bryan Boyhood Home


William Jennings Bryan Boyhood Home
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	408 S. Broadway, Salem, Illinois
Coordinates	38°37′42″N 88°56′53″W / 38.62833°N 88.94806°W / 38.62833; -88.94806Coordinates: 38°37′42″N 88°56′53″W / 38.62833°N 88.94806°W / 38.62833; -88.94806
Area	0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built	1852
NRHP Reference #	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]

Notes

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 Evans, Clyde E. (April 18, 1974). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form:" (PDF). National Park Service. Retrieved February 27, 2014.

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