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The park protects the birthplace, home, ranch, and grave of Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the United States. [5] During Johnson's administration, the LBJ Ranch was known as the Texas White House because the President spent approximately 20% of his time in office there. [6]
White also designed the park's visitor center. [1] The 269-acre (109 ha) park was officially dedicated in August, 1970, in a ceremony attended by the Johnson family and a host of dignitaries. Since the dedication, the park has been expanded to approximately 732.75 acres (297 ha).
President Lyndon B. Johnson's boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas. Johnson's family moved from a farm near Stonewall, Texas -- now known as the LBJ Ranch -- to Johnson City (a distance of about fourteen miles) two weeks after his fifth birthday, in September 1913. For most of the next twenty-four years, this was their home.
President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, moved back to his Johnson City, Texas, ranch after leaving the White House. Lyndon B. Johnson's ranch. Cynthia Dorminey/NPS.
His ranch at Stonewall was known as the Texas White House. Tourism became an important industry. [37] Ranch Road 1 was designated in 1963. On January 22, 1973, President Johnson died at his Stonewall ranch. He, and later Lady Bird Johnson, were laid to rest at the family cemetery on the ranch. [37]
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The Johnson Ranch, or "Texas White House" In 1952, White was hired by Lady Bird Johnson (wife of then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson) to be the primary architect overseeing the redesign and expansion of her Hill Country home near Johnson City, Texas, which would later be known as the "Texas White House" (now part of the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park).
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