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Historic house in Illinois, United States

The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home is the house located at 816 S. Hennepin Ave., Dixon, Illinois, in which the 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan lived as a youth beginning in 1920. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The home is open to visitors from April to October.

The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home was constructed in Dixon, Illinois, in 1891; its design is fairly typical of American houses during the time period.

The home is open to the public and operated by Young America's Foundation. On February 6, 2002, (Public Law 107 137), the United States Secretary of the Interior was authorized to purchase the property from the foundation and establish a U. S. National Historic Site under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service (NPS). The law specifies that the site will not be designated as the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home National Historic Site until after the Department of the Interior acquires the property. However, in December 2020, Young America's Foundation stepped in to protect the property and preserve the ideas and principles President Reagan developed while there for future generations, just as YAF has preserved and protected Ronald Reagan’s beloved Rancho del Cielo in Santa Barbara, California.

The 1891 house is cast in the popular Queen Anne style. The two storey house rests on a stone foundation and is topped with a gable roof which was originally covered with cedar shingles. on March 26, 1982.

According to the National Register of Historic Places documentation, Ronald Reagan stated that the house was associated with important events of his childhood. One author, James E. Combs, called Dixon's claim that the "Boyhood Home" is the actual boyhood home of Ronald Reagan a bit bogus considering the Reagans moved often and only lived in the house for about two years. While they lived in the home the Reagan brothers shared a second floor bedroom, despite the house having three bedrooms. Ronald's mother used the third as a work room.