clintonbirthplace

Museum awarded grant

Clinton Bithplace — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:08:33 -0500

President Bill Clinton's 1st Home Museum has just been awarded a marvelous grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Department of Arkansas Heritage and the Arkansas Museums Association. The grant provides a year-long program of expert assistance to the board and staff in governance and all aspects of museum development. One of only 20 grants awarded, we are all delighted and eager to learn.

National Park Service

Clinton Bithplace — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 01:03:14 -0500

President Bill Clinton's 1st Home is on the National Register of Historic Places. Legislation to include the site in the National Park Service's Presidential Sites is working it's way through Congress.

Meanwhile, this fall the NPS has included our information in their Travel Itinerary. This is a significant honor for our site and we are thrilled to have President Clinton's 1st Home listed with those of other American presidents.

Global Visitors Tree Lighting

Clinton Bithplace — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:57:16 -0600

Over forty-thousand people have visited Hope, Arkansas since the Clinton Birthplace Museum was restored and opened in 1997 by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation. Of the world’s 193 countries, citizens from 157 countries have come to visit President Bill Clinton’s first home, the home he shared with his widowed mother and maternal grandparents Edith and Eldridge Cassidy. The museum’s World Atlas Map is filled with red visitor pins from Antarctica to Greenland, all around the equator and almost everywhere in between. Visitors make the pilgrimage because President Clinton’s ideas and policies have had an important impact in their lives and their ...

Invitation: Global Visitors Tree Lighting - Wed 13 Dec 2006

Clinton Bithplace — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 11:55:25 -0600

Over forty thousand people have visited Hope, Arkansas since the Clinton Birthplace Museum was restored and opened in 1997 by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation. Of the world’s 193 countries, citizens from 157 countries have come to visit President Bill Clinton’s first home, the home he shared with his mother and maternal grandparents Edith and Eldridge Cassidy. The museum’s World Atlas Map is filled with red visitor pins from Antarctica to Greenland, all around the equator and almost everywhere in between. Visitors make the pilgrimage because President Clinton’s ideas and policies have had an important impact in their lives and their ...

Congressmen Mike Ross and Dennis Cardoza visit the Clinton Birthplace

Clinton Bithplace — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:21:00 -0600

Congressmen Mike Ross (D-Arkansas) and Dennis Cardoza (D-California) visited the Clinton Birthplace Foundation on February 9th, 2006. The congressmen briefed the board of directors on the status of House Bill (H.R. 4192). This bill would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to designate the President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home in Hope, Arkansas, as a National Historic Site and unit of the National Park System.

Foundation Board Member Parker Westbrook, Foundation Executive Director Richelle Rodgers, Congressman Dennis Cardoza, Congressman Mike Ross, University of Arkansas Community College Chancellor Charles Welch, and Arkansas State Representative Chris Thomason (D-AK)

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Foundation acquires additional Clinton home

Clinton Bithplace — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:07:07 -0600

The Clinton Birthplace Foundation has acquired another of President Clinton's childhood homes. This home is located at 321 E. 13^th Street in Hope, Arkansas. The Clinton's lived in this home from 1950 to 1953, when they moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas.

The foundation is planning a celebration of this acquistion during 2006. Click here to be added to our mailing list and you will receive information about this event as it becomes available.