Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park

The Lyndon Baines Johnson Boyhood Home is a residential building in the Texas town of Johnson City in a National Historical Park. Here the later U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson grew up.

Located in the center of the small town house built in 1886 and 1901, expanding by WC Russell, the sheriff of the Blanco County to its present form. The facade has simple classic elements and decorative Verge of milled wood. Each wing of the house is one room deep to ensure adequate natural light and ventilation. Over the years, learned by growing porches small structural changes.

Johnson's parents, Sam Ealy Johnson Jr. (1877-1937) and Rebekah Baines Johnson (1881-1958) acquired in 1913 for the sum of 2925 dollars, the property and its 7000 m² of farmland and undergo their five children. The eldest son, Lyndon Baines, who lived from the age of five in the house until 1924 he graduated from high school. In March 1937, he started on the eastern porch his first election campaign for his entry into the House of Representatives, which was the basis for his political career and his rise up in the presidency.

To be the site of a major American the house was on May 23, 1966 two and a half years after the inauguration of Johnson as president, declared a National Historic Landmark. The nearby Lyndon Baines Johnson Ranch, the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library & Museum, his birthplace and other buildings with biographical associations belongs Lyndon Baines Johnson Boyhood Home of Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park.