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The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home is the house located at 816 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon, Illinois, in which the 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan lived as a youth beginning in 1920. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
For more than 20 years, it was the vacation home of Ronald and Nancy Reagan. The 688-acre (278 ha) ranch's Spanish name translates to Sky's Ranch or Heaven's Ranch in English. In 1974, Reagan's family purchased the ranch, and he himself frequented the ranch throughout his presidency.
The house was purchased by a group of friends for Nancy and Ronald Reagan for $2.5 million in 1986 (equivalent to $6,949,000 in 2023). [1] The friends included the businessmen Earle Jorgensen and Holmes Tuttle, members of Ronald Reagan's informal "kitchen cabinet" of wealthy supporters and advisers. [2]
Nancy Reagan was pictured with former Sen. John McCain outside the home in 2008. The home last sold for $15 million in 2016. George H.W. Bush's estate in Kennebunkport, Maine, known as Walker's ...
By Les Christie In the 1950s Ronald Reagan's best movies were behind him, but he still had enough charm to be asked to host "General Electric Theater," an early television anthology show. GE ...
Dixon was the childhood home of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Reagan was born in nearby Tampico and moved to Dixon, aged nine. In his teen years, he lifeguarded along the banks of the Rock River. His family house is preserved at 816 South Hennepin Avenue, and authorized by Congress to become the Ronald Reagan Boyhood ...
Famous examples include Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, as well as George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas; Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan have also used the term for their private residences (Nixon and Reagan in California, Johnson in Texas). [15] [16] [17]
US President Ronald Reagan is sworn in as 40th President of the United States by Chief Justice Warren Burger beside his wife Nancy Reagan (C) during inaugural ceremony, on January 21, 1985 in the ...