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And we knock off another presidential site with a logistically challenging schedule (offering just four time slots for tours in any given week). This time we toured The President Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, DC near Embassy Row.
By the time Woodrow was ready to leave the White House, he had suffered a debilitating stroke. His wife, Edith, worked hard to create an environment in the new home where he would feel comfortable in to aid in his recovery, adding necessities like an elevator.
The Wilsons retired here in March 1921, moving directly from the White House.
Woodrow died here just three years later, though Edith continued to live her until her passing in 1961.
Upon her death the house and furnishings were bequeathed to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, who show the home today as it would have looked in 1924.
The cover photo is Woodrow’s library, which includes 8,000 books!
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