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Hayes and the first presidential library
1916
Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio
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The country's first presidential library opened at Spiegel Grove in Fremont in 1916, built around Rutherford B. Hayes's papers and home decades before the National Archives copied the idea for every president since. Hayes himself is the fitting subject: he won the most disputed election in American history by one electoral vote, in a deal that ended Reconstruction, and historians have been in his papers arguing about it ever since.
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