419 Seventh Street  •  Augusta, Georgia 30901  •  Phone 706-722-9828

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Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home Preview Tour

Chronology of the Boyhood Home of President Woodrow Wilson in Augusta, Georgia

Woodrow Wilson said, "My earliest recollection is of standing at my father's gateway in Augusta, Georgia, when I was four years old and hearing someone pass and say that Mr. Lincoln was elected and there was to be war."	Front Hall - The floor is covered with an oil cloth like those advertised in the newspapers of the 1860s and used in rooms like the entry to protect floor from the mud and manure from the streets. It emulates a design of the period.	Parlor - The parlor was remembered as a formal room and it was here the Wilson family and their guests may have discussed the important events going on in their community.	Dining Room - The dining room table and chairs are the original ones around which the young Wilsons and their parents sat. Wilson remembered the table when he visited Augusta during his presidency, relating a story about scratching the pedestal of the table while playing under it as a boy.	The marble top side board in the dining room is also original, although the tiered top has been lost.	Study - The working room for Reverend Wilson was this study. Here he read, studied, wrote sermons and spent time with his sons and daughters. This room was remembered as having book-lined walls and smelling of goods and tobacco from Reverend Wilson's clay bowl pipe.	"Best" Room - This downstairs bedroom and receiving room for female friends of Mrs. Wilson, Overnight guests stayed in this room.
Tommy's Room - The young Tommy Wilson was one year old when he moved to Augusta, three when he moved into this house. He shared this room with his younger brother Josie.	Girl's Room - Tommy Wilson had two older sisters. The girls were ten and six when the Wilsons moved into the house and twenty and seventeen when they left.	The gas fixtures on either side of the dresser in the girl's room are the only original ones remaining in the house.	Upstairs Sitting Room - This room served much as a family room or den would in a household today.	Master Bedroom - This room, painted in the more expensive blue, served as the bedroom of Joseph and Jessie Wilson.	Kitchen/Laundry - The Wilsons lived in a house that was quite modern for its time. They may have had plumbing installed when the house was built in anticipation of a new water system the city was working on.	Carriage House - Wilson along with his best friend Joseph Rucker Lamar, who lived next door, and some other neighborhood boys formed the Light Foot Base Ball Club. The secret meeting place of the club was the hayloft in this stable.