George W. Bush Childhood Home

The George W. Bush Childhood Home is a residential building in the Texas town of Midland. Here grew 1952-1955 to the later U.S. President George W. Bush.

Located in an inner-city residential area at the Ohio Avenue house was built in 1939 by local contractors Houston Hill. Contracting Authority was Mildred L. Ethridge, who ran a tobacco and newspaper stand in the scratching of Bauer Hotel Midland. Hill designed a one-story house, which he adorned on the street front with a brick brick fireplace. Within 60 days, it was built in traditional wood frame construction. In June 1945, Ethridge sold the house to Mr. and Mrs. Hanley. In January 1947, Paxton Howard acquired together with his wife the estate and an adjoining it to the east lot. They modernized the house and rebuilt it in several places. The family lived there for four years, then but moved into a bigger and left the house on Ohio Avenue to the contractor Lloyd Ponder.

On November 7, 1951 George HW Bush and his wife Barbara purchased the property for a sum of $ 9,000. After the birth of her daughter Robin their old house on East Maple had become too small. The Bush family lived here until 1955. During this time the sons Jeb and Neil were born, Robin, died in 1953 from leukemia. Their eldest son George was enrolled at the nearby Sam Houston Elementary School and lived here in his own words, the first formative years of his childhood.

After Bush's first in the fall of 1955 in a larger home in Midland to Houston and 1959, the house was owned by many other families. 2001 we acquired the Permian Basin Board of Realtors and began to set up a memorial here. In several phases of construction, the house was restored to its state of the mid-1950s and is open to the public since the fall of 2004.

As the former home of two later U.S. presidents, a later Governor and First Lady of the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 28, 2004.