Visits to Presidential Sites

22nd and 24th President, 1885-1889, 1893-1897 Grover Cleveland sites visited: Before becoming President, Cleveland served as the Mayor of Buffalo, New York in 1882 (and the Governor of New York 1883-1884). Buffalo has a statue of him downtown. Cleveland did not attend college but studied law and was admitted to the New York bar. His statue in the City of Presidents, Rapids City, South Dakota: Cleveland entered the Presidency as a bachelor and married Frances Folsom in the White House in 1886. It is the only White House wedding of a sitting President. Grover was 49 years old and Frances was 21. We found this marker and his portrait on a tour of the White House. Grover Cleveland is buried in Princeton Cemetery in New Jersey with his wife and eldest of his five children, Ruth, who died at age 12. Their second child, Esther, was born in 1893, the first child born to an incumbent President. On June 28, 1894, Cleveland signed legislation making Labor Day a federal holiday. Grover never used ...

 13th President, 1850 - 1853 Millard Fillmore sites visited: This is the house Fillmore helped build and lived in with Abigail from 1826-1830. Location: 24 Shearer Ave, East Aurora, New York. We found the Millard Fillmore Presidential Library at 15617 Waterloo in Cleveland, Ohio. It was a most unique "Presidential Library" and we enjoyed our time there very much 😉 Souvenirs are available 😁 Rapid City, South Dakota, City of Presidents statue: This is a Vice Presidential portrait, from a 2023 exhibit at the Gerald R. Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In Buffalo, New York, Abraham Lincoln attended church with Fillmore in 1861. Outside of Buffalo City Hall stands a statue of Fillmore. Millard and his second wife, Caroline, lived in a large house on Niagara Square in Buffalo after his presidency. The house later became Hotel Fillmore, and then Castle Inn. The Inn was demolished in order to build the Statler Hotel, which still stands today as a mixed-use building. Fillmore i...