The building would face the Charles River which was a few feet away, and on the other side of which, the dormitories that included Winthrop House where Kennedy spent his upperclassman days. Kennedy chose a plot of land next to the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Kennedy had not decided on any design concept yet, but he felt that the existing presidential libraries were placed too 'far away from scholarly resources.' They were all scattered around the country in small towns from New York to Iowa. Roosevelt Library, the Truman Library, and the Dwight D. At the time there were only four other Presidential Libraries: the Hoover Presidential Library, the Franklin D. Location, design and dedication Original site and name ĭuring a weekend visit to Boston on October 19, 1963, President Kennedy, along with John Carl Warnecke - the architect who would design the President's tomb in Arlington - viewed several locations offered by Harvard as a site for the library and museum. It can be reached from nearby Interstate 93 or via shuttle bus or walk from the JFK/UMass stop on the Red Line of Boston's MBTA system. The library and Museum were dedicated in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and members of the Kennedy family. The library and museum is part of the Presidential Library System, which is administered by the Office of Presidential Libraries, a part of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Pei, the building is the official repository for original papers and correspondence of the Kennedy Administration, as well as special bodies of published and unpublished materials, such as books and papers by and about Ernest Hemingway. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, and the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum.

It is located on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, next to the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the Edward M.

Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), the 35th president of the United States (1961–1963).

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