Geraniums, Eisenhower Home
by Catherine Sherman
Title
Geraniums, Eisenhower Home
Artist
Catherine Sherman
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Photograph - Photography
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"Silk Geraniums, Eisenhower Home, Abilene, Kansas" by Catherine Sherman.
Bright red silk geraniums brighten a window sill, framed by white curtains, in the kitchen of the President Dwight D. Eisenhower's boyhood home.
The house sits in its original location, surrounded by the grounds of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood home in Abilene, Kansas. Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States (1954-1961). Eisenhower lived in this house from 1898 until he was appointed to West Point in 1911. He was born in 1890 in Texas.
Eisenhower graduated from West Point in 1915 and later married Mamie Doud, with whom he had two sons. During World War I, he was denied a request to serve in Europe and instead commanded a unit that trained tank crews. Following the war, he served under various generals and was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in 1941. After the U.S. entered World War II, Eisenhower oversaw the successful invasions of North Africa and Sicily before supervising the invasions of France and Germany. After the war, Eisenhower served as Army Chief of Staff and then was president of Columbia University. In 1951–52, he served as the first Supreme Commander of NATO.
The museum complex is one of the thirteen presidential libraries under the auspices of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
Visitors can tour the house, the library, museum, visitor's center and the chapel that contains his grave and that of his wife Mamie.
The home opened to the public as a museum on June 22, 1947 and the cornerstone of an Eisenhower/World War II museum was laid in June 1952 by Eisenhower, just before he formally announced his candidacy for President.
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August 30th, 2018
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