Post Presidential Homes

President George W. Bush and his wife Laura moved back to Dallas in 2009 after his presidency. They live in the Preston Hollow neighborhood they occupied before Bush was elected Texas governor in 1994.

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Bush's 1,600-acre Prairie Chapel Ranch is better known by the town it occupies -- Crawford, Texas. Bush bought the ranch for $1.3 million in 1999, a year before he won the presidency. Since then, the two-term president and his wife Laura have added an eco-friendly ranch house and a large fishing pond.

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In this photo, President Clinton holds an umbrella under the porch of his childhood home in Hope, AR, on Friday, March 12, 1999.

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Although Mr. Clinton was in and out of his grandparents' home until he was ten, he still considers this house to be his home.

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When President Bill Clinton left office after two terms, he bought and moved into this $2.85 million colonial house on Washington, D.C.'s Embassy Row. Senator Hillary Clinton announced presidential candidacy from the residence's newly-added sun room.

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In 1999, the Clinton First Family purchased a $1.7 million Dutch colonial house in a cul-de-sac in Chappaqua, New York. The understated house has five bedrooms and 100 years of history. The wealthy town of Chappaqua is about 35 miles north of New York City; and provided future Senator Hillary Clinton with the residency she needed to run for Congress.

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The Clinton's rent this East Hampton home owned by Elie Hirschfeld, a real estate mogul. This oceanfront property is 12,000 square feet, has eight bedrooms.  This house was on the market in 2009 for a sale price of $19.95 million.

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The living room, or living salon, in this home is decorated with all white decor and pops of random color.

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The formal dining room features a fireplace and is place next to the million dollar gourmet kitchen.

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George H.W. Bush's 8-acre summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine has been in the family for 120 years. The estate, sometimes called the "Bush Compound," includes a pool, a gym, and a windmill. Visitors have been known to scoot around the estate on Segways.

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Reagan lived in the house, which is now a museum, for several years as a child. The Feb. 6 centennial of Reagan's birth is a proud moment for this region of Illinois where Reagan was born and raised.

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This is Ronald Reagan's childhood home where he lived in Dixon, Illinois since 1920. The home was constructed in the Queen Anne style, with two stories on top of a stone foundation. It has since been listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

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When President Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy left the White House in 1989, friends purchased them a $2.5 million ranch-style house in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. The 7,000 sq. ft., three-bedroom, six bathroom home sits right next door to the mansion that served as the setting for the television show "The Beverly Hillbillies."

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In 1974, years before he became the President, the Reagan's purchased Rancho del Cielo, a remote 688-acre ranch about 30 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, California. He once said that if the ranch was not Heaven, it "probably has the same zip code."

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Jimmy Carter's boyhood home located in Plains, Georgia, is built on a small farm. Now a tourist attraction, it is said that his beliefs and personality were shaped on this rural farm where he lived for almost one and a half decades.

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A typical middle class rural dwelling in the 1920's, the farmhouse used fireplaces and wood stoves for heat and lacked indoor plumbing or electricity.

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Jimmy Carter speaks of his boyhood saying, “The early years of my life on the farm were full and enjoyable, isolated but not lonely. We always had enough to eat, no economic hardship, but no money to waste. We felt close to nature, close to members of our family, and close to God.”

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Here is an image of the house taken on August 1976 in Plains, Georgia. Visitors to Plains can tour the National Historic Site that includes Plains High School and the Carter Boyhood Home, though his private residence is off-limits.

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Clearly attached to his Southern roots, Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn returned to their hometown of Plains,  after finishing his time in office.

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Nixon's "Winter White House" in Key Biscayane, FL, where he visited at least 50 times during his presidency from 1969 to 1974. The Department of Defense spent $400,000 building a helicopter landing pad in the nearby bay.

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Pictured here, President Nixon and his top advisors spent a rainy morning inside, Dec. 3, 1971, at his Key Biscayne home working on his fiscal budget.  From left are: John Ehrlichman, Chief Domestic Advisor; George Shultz, Director of the Office of Management and Budget; President Nixon and Casper Weinberger, Budget Director and Chief Deputy of Shultz.

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The Florida home provided a relaxing environment for President Richard Nixon and his wife.  Here, they are seen in a golf cart near their home in Key Biscayne, Florida on Friday, June 2, 1972. They had recently returned from a 13-day trip to the Soviet Union and other countries.

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His image tarnished by the Watergate scandal, President Richard Nixon moved to New York City in 1980 to join a law firm. He bought a four-story townhouse on an exclusive block of East 65th Street.

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The former president recently sold his San Clemente, Calif. estate and has twice been rebuffed in his effort to buy an apartment in Manhattan.

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Though he didn't have trouble finding a job, he had trouble finding an apartment; co-op boards and neighbors thought his reputation would sully their buildings.

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Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower had a vacation home in Muzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico. Called San Geronimo Ranch, the property spans over 50,000 acres.

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This stunning Central American home has hosted not only Dwight Eisenhower as many Mexican presidents and Charles Lindbergh.

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The dining Room at San Geronimo is equipped with a beautiful blue ceiling and hardwood floors.

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The living room at San Geronimo, painted stark white, has a grandiose fireplace and large French doors that let in light and has views of the two mountain ranges the ranch is located between.

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Located in Nashville, TN, Andrew Jackson owned a plantation known at the Hermitage. Jackson only lived at the property occasionally.

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The original Hermitage mansion boasted eight rooms and two stories. It is considered a Federal-style brick building with a grand entrance portico that had Doric columns. The living room had a huge fireplace with lots of seating room.

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As you enter the front door of the Hermitage Mansion, you'll see a grand staircase and a wallpaper mural. This paper was made in 1825, but was taken down  in 1930 to be treated with preservative. But, it has since been replaced.

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Washington Virginia is filled with homes of the founding fathers.  George Washington's home Mount Vernon is located in Fairfax County Virginia, near Alexandria.  A national historic landmark, visitors can tour the home and visit his tomb.

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Circa 1950:  Interior of Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson, built on a hilltop a mile from Charlottesville, Virginia. 

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Exterior view of Monticello, the home of American president Thomas Jefferson, Charlottesville, Virginia, late twentieth century.

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The bedroom and Cabinet area of former U.S. President Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home is shown August 17, 2005 at Monticello near Charlottesville in Virginia. 

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An ivory chess set, circa 1786, sits in the parlor of Monticello between busts of Thomas Jefferson, left, and Napoleon in Charlottesville, Va., in this Nov. 18, 2002, file photo. Jefferson and James Madison frequently played chess here. The home hosts half-million visitors annually. 

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Another U.S. President who spent his life in a Virginian home is Thomas Jefferson.  His home of Monticello is located just outside of Charlottesville, Virginia.  Famous for its design, (by Jefferson himself) Monticello reflects the neoclassical style of architecture.

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