Home Sweet Home: Where The Presidents Lived Before (And After) The White House

Living in the White House is one of the top perks of being commander-in-chief. With 132 rooms, 35 bathrooms, 28 fireplaces, three elevators, five full-time chefs, a tennis court, a movie theater, a swimming pool, a bowling alley and a putting green, it's not a bad place to call home. But where did the nation's presidents live in their pre-D.C. days? And what residences were worthy of their post-White House years? From Mount Vernon and Monticello to Midland and Chicago, here's a run down of various presidential pads.

George Washington

Mount Vernon in Virginia was Washington's plantation home on the banks of the Potomac River.

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[preatorius]

01:42 AM on 08/30/2009

The Bush home is not accurate: http://www.presidentialavenue.com/gb.cfm

[karela]

09:48 PM on 08/30/2009

One wonders how George H.W. Bush managed to live in the very modest house shown in this article if the Bush family built the Kennebuckport vacation mansion in 1901. Just exactly how much time did the family spend in the modest little house? And when?

Beyond that, I was hoping, based on the article that we would see more pictures of Presidential homes both before and after their Presidencies. The Clintons had no home of their home before the White House and their present home is quite nice for instance. The Obama's were able to afford their current home because he wrote a couple of books. How did H.W. Bush get enough money to move from the little gray house to the mansion at Kinnebunkport? Inquiring minds want to know more about each President's before and after. For instance, Harry Truman was so concerned that he would do nothing to tarnish the office of the Presidency that he and Bess were very hard up afterwards because he wouldn't take any work that he felt might demean the Presidency. That situation resulted in Presidential retirement income. Tell us a whole lot more.

[Heavhauler]

09:02 AM on 08/29/2009

How come we get 4 shots of the boosh helll hole and no picture at all of Jimmys place ?

[ywcachieve]

03:23 PM on 08/29/2009

LOL

[JScott]

01:54 AM on 08/29/2009

Reagan's Bel Air residence was loaded with extra outlets and lighting since he used to be a spokesman for GE. And he had the address changed from 666 to 668, you go by there now and not see much its' surrounded by unkempt bushes a chainlink fence with canvas tarps hung on them, really kinda junky compared to the rest of the neighborhood. Nixon's birthplace is a historical park, his aunt saved just about everything so the cottage has a lot of personal furnishings and artifacts.

[ywcachieve]

03:25 PM on 08/29/2009

'''Nixon's birthplace is a historical park, his aunt saved just about everything so the cottage has a lot of personal furnishings and artifacts.'''

I have walked through Nixon's child hood home twice. It is really small. It is located in Yorba Linda, California.

[killmenow]

09:27 PM on 08/30/2009

I was never superstitious about 666 before but I certainly am now.

[LMPE]

12:39 AM on 08/29/2009

Wasn't the Lincoln cabin a hoax built thirty years after his death?

[chitown8]

02:13 AM on 08/29/2009

I think so I believe it was burned down. Lincoln was actually born in Kentucky not Illinois.

[mikefina]

10:43 PM on 08/28/2009

What a country. From the Roosevelt (take your pick) manses, Mt. Vernon and Monticello, to the humble starts of Reagan, Obama and Clinton. In this country, it isn't where you are from, it's where you are going.

[chitown8]

10:35 PM on 08/28/2009

I use to drive to Hyde Park and sit on Ellis, Greenwood and Woodlawn and just dream.

The Obama home (before I knew they stayed there) was just a beauty. BTW he stays down the streey from Ramesy Lewis Home (another Beauty)!

[timewaster2dcore]

06:53 PM on 08/28/2009

Thomas Jefferson's house is so exquisite, especially with the snow draping the compound. I love the picture.

[verycold]

04:45 PM on 08/29/2009

I have been there many times. Fabulous. I loved the pics. Thank you HP. I loved the tiny yellow house. The Bush pics were interesting as well. FDR certainly had quite the mansion. Teddy too. Again, fun pictures.

[preatorius]

01:44 AM on 08/30/2009

Bush lived in a victorian. His father was a Senator. His grandfather was a was a railroad executive, then a steel company president, and, during World War I, also a federal government official in charge of coordination and assistance to major weapons contractors.

I think Samuel made a lot of money farming out weapons contracts.

[oregonbird]

05:51 PM on 08/28/2009

The Bush house gave me a shiver. Somehow... yeah.

[ywcachieve]

03:26 PM on 08/29/2009

LOL