The Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home, in Augusta, Georgia, is a historic house museum owned and operated by Historic Augusta, Inc. It was designated a National Historic Landmark on October 6, 2008. It was the childhood home of Thomas "Tommy" Woodrow Wilson, (1856-1924) 28th president of the United States and proponent of the League of Nations.
Then a Presbyterian church manse, it was the home where Tommy spent his formative years, from 1860-1870, experiencing the American Civil War and the Reconstruction. Wilson, later U.S. president during 1915-1923, was profoundly affected.
It was opened as a house museum in 2001
The house is adjacent to the Joseph R. Lamar Boyhood Home, which is also listed on the National Register.
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