Season 1, Episode 28-Woodrow Wilson and Staunton

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Season 1, Episode 28: Woodrow Wilson and Staunton

Our final trip to the Cradle of the Presidency, to Woodrow Wilson’s birthplace in Staunton, Virginia. A man who believed wholly in his own destiny, for better and for worse, listen to his childhood and what happened to his birthplace!

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum, next to the birthplace.

The Museum’s page on the Birthplace.

Virtual Tour of the Birthplace!

Be sure to listen to Woodrow Wilson’s “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 2, “Woodrow Wilson and Washington, D.C.“ on his home!

Also, be sure to listen to Woodrow Wilson’s “Visiting the Presidents” Episode from Season 3, “Woodrow Wilson’s Tomb” on his gravesite!

From My May 2017 Visit!

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library is in the same complex as his birthplace
At the Woodrow Wilson birthplace
Looking out over Staunton from the birthplace
The marker attached to the building
The birthplace
At the Woodrow Wilson birthplace.
In front of the birthplace
Picturesque
I don’t appreciate the sign
Whatever
I loved Staunton

From My June 2023 Visit!

Outside the Woodrow Wilson birthplace!
Front of the manse
Front
Front parlor at the Wilson birthplace
Dining room
Where Woodrow was born
Woodrow Wilson’s birthplace
Formal guest room
A group Woodrow would join
The room Woodrow stayed in when he visited
In Woodrow’s room
In the basement
Kitchen
Front of the Wilson birthplace
The back area, with a view of Staunton
Wilson birthplace

The Woodrow Wilson Museum

The Woodrow Wilson Museum
Woodrow
Woodrow and me
In the museum, charting Woodrow’s rise to power
Woodrow’s family ties
Woodrow and me
Woodrow as governor of New Jersey
Woodrow’s return to Staunton
Woodrow and Taft
From his campaigns
As the war set in
From the end of Wilson’s life
Exhibit on the trenches of World War I in the basement
In the trenches
Ellen, Woodrow, and Edith Wilson
with Woodrow
Postcard of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace.
The house stayed remarkably consistent
Woodrow Wilson Portrait by F. Graham Cootes

Woodrow Wilson Birthplace: 20 N. Coalter Street, Staunton, VA.

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