{{short description|National Historic Site of the United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = First Ladies National Historic Site | nrhp_type = nhs | image = First Ladies National Historic Site main entrance at the 1895 City National Bank Building.JPG | caption = The main entrance of the First Ladies National Historic Site. | location = 205 and 331 Market Avenue South, Canton, Ohio | coordinates = {{coord|40|47|48|N|81|22|31|W|display=inline,title}} | locmapin = Ohio#USA | mapframe = yes | mapframe-marker = building | mapframe-zoom = 12 |mapframe-caption = Interactive map showing the location for First Ladies National Historic Site | area = {{convert|0.46|acre|km2}}<ref name="area">{{NPS area|year=2012|access-date=May 5, 2025}}</ref> | architect = | architecture = | designated_nrhp_type = October 11, 2000 | added = January 31, 2001<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|2007a}}</ref> | website = [https://www.nps.gov/fila/index.htm First Ladies National Historic Site] | refnum = 01000286 | visitation_num = 11,187 | visitation_year = 2023 | visitation_ref = <ref>{{cite web |title=Annual Park Ranking Report for Recreation Visits in: 2023 |url=https://irma.nps.gov/Stats/SSRSReports/National%20Reports/Annual%20Park%20Ranking%20Report%20(1979%20-%20Last%20Calendar%20Year)|website=nps.gov |publisher=National Park Service |access-date=March 23, 2024 }}</ref> }}
[[Image:First Ladies National Historic Site - Saxton House.JPG|thumb|The Saxton House, former home of Ida Saxton McKinley]] '''First Ladies National Historic Site''' is a United States National Historic Site located in Canton, Ohio. During her residency in Washington, D.C. Mary Regula, wife of Ohio representative Ralph Regula, spoke regularly about the nation's first ladies. Recognizing the paucity of research materials available she created a board to raise funds and for a historian to assemble a comprehensive bibliography on American first ladies. From these inspirations came a National First Ladies’ Library, established in 1996, and the First Ladies National Historic Site.<ref>Dunak, Karen. 2014. "First Ladies National Historic Site and Saxton McKinley House." ''Journal of American History'': 213-214.</ref>
==Operations== Established in 2000 to commemorate all the United States First Ladies, the First Ladies National Historic Site comprises two buildings: the Education & Research Center and the Ida Saxton McKinley historic home, which preserves the home of Ida McKinley, the wife of U.S. president William McKinley. The site is operated by the National First Ladies' Library in a partnership agreement with the National Park Service and managed by Cuyahoga Valley National Park.<ref>{{cite news |first=John Arthur |last=Hutchison |title=Cuyahoga Valley National Park named new manager of Garfield National Historic Site in Mentor |url=http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20150213/cuyahoga-valley-national-park-named-new-manager-of-garfield-national-historic-site-in-mentor |work=The News-Herald |date=2015-02-13 |access-date=2015-02-14 |archive-date=February 14, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214163720/http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20150213/cuyahoga-valley-national-park-named-new-manager-of-garfield-national-historic-site-in-mentor |url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Maintenance cost issues == Since its creation in the year 2000, the historic site has faced many problems. The maintenance cost was estimated in 2014 at $220,000 for a complete restoration. That figure kept climbing until the year 2017 when it needed $1,017,000. The cost decreased to $882,000 in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Identifying & Reporting Deferred Maintenance - Infrastructure (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/identifying-reporting-deferred-maintenance.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181010142650/https://www.nps.gov/subjects/infrastructure/identifying-reporting-deferred-maintenance.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 10, 2018 |access-date=2022-04-30 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== *Bibliography of United States presidential spouses and first ladies
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{commons category|First Ladies National Historic Site}} *[https://www.nps.gov/fila/index.htm NPS First Ladies National Historic Site] *[http://www.firstladies.org National First Ladies' Library]
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