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John F. Kennedy Library Foundation

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is located in Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
Location 42°18′57.21″N 71°2′2.71″W / 42.3158917°N 71.0340861°W / 42.3158917; -71.0340861 (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (Suffolk County, Massachusetts))Coordinates: 42°18′57.21″N 71°2′2.71″W / 42.3158917°N 71.0340861°W / 42.3158917; -71.0340861 (John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (Suffolk County, Massachusetts))
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States
Construction start August 1977
Groundbreaking: June 12, 1977
Dedicated October 20, 1979
Rededicated October 23, 1993
Named for John F. Kennedy
Architect I. M. Pei
Size 10 acres (40,000 m2)
Cost $20.8 million
Management National Archives and Records Administration
Website jfklibrary.org

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States (1961–1963). It is located on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, next to the University of Massachusetts Boston, the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate, and the Massachusetts Archives and Commonwealth Museum. Designed by the architect I. M. 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for original papers and correspondence of the Kennedy Administration, as well as special bodies of published and unpublished materials, such as books and papers by and about Ernest Hemingway. The library and museum were dedicated in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter and members of the Kennedy family. It can be reached from nearby Interstate 93 or via shuttle bus or walk from the JFK/UMass stop on the Boston subway's Red line.

During 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. At the time there were only four other Presidential Libraries: the Hoover Presidential Library, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, the Truman Library, and the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library. They were all scattered around the country in small towns from New York to Iowa. 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."


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