Presidential Places app for iPhone and iPad

Presidential Places: A Guide to the Historic Sites of U.S. Presidents

Here is an app that park rangers, curators, and librarians around the country say fits a constant request: a comprehensive guide to the historic places of the Presidents of the United States.

This app will do more than simply direct you to the well-known Presidential sites, such as the places where John F. Kennedy was shot, or where Ulysses S. Grant is entombed. Included here, for the first time ever in one source, are nearly 1,000 sites: the places where the 45 Presidents were born, lived, went to school, worked, worshipped, were married, were inaugurated, died, were buried, and are honored. There are more than 900 individual places included!

This app will direct you to the places where you can climb aboard Air Force One, or visit the former café where Lyndon Johnson developed his fondness for chili, or see Jimmy Carter’s famous Smiling Peanut Statue. You’ll discover the California hotel where the Nixons married and the Reagans honeymooned; the Vermont home where Calvin Coolidge was inaugurated by his own father at 2:47 a.m. one day; the Ohio dormitory where curious students broke down the wall of Rutherford B. Hayes’s former room; the churchyard in Virginia where George Washington first told friends he would fight for independence; and hundreds of more Presidential Places! The app’s geographic indices will help you to plan which sites to visit while you travel, and the trivia questions will keep your friends guessing.

The information is presented in very clear text with a separate scrollable page for each President. Information is organized under the following headings:
• Presidential Library
• Birthplace
• Homes
• Churches
• Education
• Marriage
• Inaugural Sites
• Place of Death
• Funeral
• Burial Site
• Other Sites (statues, memorials, museums, battlefields, etc.)

In addition to informative text, each entry includes a physical address and a website link. Clicking on most addresses will launch your iPhone’s map app showing you where the site is and giving an opportunity to map it. For those sites with addresses not recognized by the map app, GPS location data is provided. By clicking on an entrys website link you will be taken directly to that places website where you will get complete information to help plan your visit.

About the author. . .

This app was written, edited, and designed by Rev. Gary Ferris, the casual historian who wrote a book by the same title (Ferris, Gary. Presidential Places: A Guide to the Historic Sites of U.S. Presidents. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair Publishers, 1999). He holds a bachelor’s degree from Niagara University and a master’s degree from Liberty University. Retired from a career as a nonprofit executive, he currently works for the United States Postal Service.