President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

{{short description|National Historic Site of the United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

| nrhp_type =

| image = President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site May 2018 4 (Bill Clinton Birthplace).jpg

| caption = President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site

| location = 117 S. Hervey St.,
Hope, Arkansas

| coordinates = {{coord|33|40|1.82|N|93|35|47.36|W|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = Arkansas#USA

| map_caption = Location in Arkansas##Location in United States

| area = {{convert|1.00|acre|km2}}{{NPS area|year=2012|access-date=May 5, 2025}}

| built = 1917

| architect = H. S. Garrett

| architecture =

| added = May 19, 1994

| website = {{URL|https://www.nps.gov/wicl}}

| refnum = 94000472{{NRISref|2007a}}

| nrhp_type2 = cp

| nocat = yes

| designated_nrhp_type2 = July 28, 1995

| partof = North Elm Street Historic District

| partof_refnum = 95000904

}}

The President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site is located in Hope, Arkansas.{{cite journal| url=http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2010-12-28/pdf/2010-32550.pdf| journal=Federal Register |volume=75 |issue=248 |date=December 28, 2010 |title=Notices |publisher=GovInfo | access-date=January 28, 2011}} Built in 1917 by H. S. Garrett, in this house the 42nd president of the United States, Bill Clinton, spent the first four years of his life, having been born on August 19, 1946, at Julia Chester Hospital in Hope, Arkansas.{{cite web |url=http://homepage.eircom.net/%257Eseanjmurphy/dir/pres.htm |title= American Presidents with Irish Ancestors |work=Directory of Irish Genealogy |first1=Sean |last1=Murphy |publisher=Centre for Irish Genealogical and Historical Studies |access-date=August 30, 2011}}{{Cite book | last=Clinton | first=Bill | title=My Life | publisher=Random House | year=2004 | isbn=1-4000-3003-X}} The house was owned by Clinton's maternal grandparents, Edith Grisham and James Eldridge Cassidy, and they cared for him when his mother, Virginia, was away working as an anesthetist in New Orleans.{{citation| last=Maraniss| first=David |title=First In His Class: A Biography of Bill Clinton |year=1995 |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=0-671-87109-9 |pages=21–32}}

On May 19, 1994, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places (as "Bill Clinton Birthplace"). Tours were offered by the Clinton Birthplace Foundation. In accordance with the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 ({{USPL|111|11}}§7002), the Secretary of the Interior accepted the property on December 14, 2010, establishing it as a national historic site and a unit of the National Park System.{{cite web| url=http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/Formal-Establishment-of-Clinton-Birthplace-Home-National-Historic-Site.cfm |website= U.S. Department of the Interior |date=December 14, 2010 | title=Secretary Salazar Announces Formal Establishment of Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site| author=Hugh Vickery| access-date=December 16, 2010}} This change in status was originally proposed by Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Bill Clinton and Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar formally dedicated the site on April 16, 2011.{{cite web| url=http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/Salazar-Joins-President-Clinton-to-Dedicate-President-William-Jefferson-Clinton-Birthplace-Home-National-Historic-Site.cfm |website= U.S. Department of the Interior |date=April 16, 2011 | title=Salazar Joins President Clinton to Dedicate President William Jefferson Clinton Birthplace Home National Historic Site| author=Hugh Vickery| access-date=April 22, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111031210101/http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/Salazar-Joins-President-Clinton-to-Dedicate-President-William-Jefferson-Clinton-Birthplace-Home-National-Historic-Site.cfm |archive-date= Oct 31, 2011 }}

The museum is a stop on the "Billgrimage", which includes the Clinton House in Fayetteville and the Bill Clinton Presidential Library, among other sites.{{Cite web |title=Billgrimage: Clinton Sites {{!}} Arkansas.com |url=https://www.arkansas.com/billgrimage-clinton-sites |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=www.arkansas.com}}{{Cite web |last=Clift |first=Zoie |date=2016-10-10 |title=Take a ‘Billgrimage’ in Arkansas |url=https://arktimes.com/sponsored/visit-arkansas/2016/10/10/take-a-billgrimage-in-arkansas |access-date=2024-08-23 |website=Arkansas Times |language=en-US}}

File:First home of Bill Clinton (24058932888).jpg|Side view

File:Bill Clinton Birthplace.jpg|Other side view