Yorba Linda city feature
About this landmark
The birthplace house and presidential archives on Yorba Linda Boulevard.
The Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum sits on nine acres at 18001 Yorba Linda Boulevard. The site includes the birthplace home, a museum building of 52,000 square feet, and grounds featuring permanent galleries, special exhibitions, and gardens. The museum's exhibits and displays feature 70 family-friendly exhibits with more than 300 original artifacts, 8,000 square feet of wall murals, 22 multimedia and interactive spaces, 30 multimedia experiences, and 11 original films.
The birthplace house and its designations
The birthplace home was constructed in 1912 from a mail-order kit by Francis A. Nixon on ranchland owned by his family. Richard Nixon was born in the house on January 9, 1913, and the family occupied it until 1922. The house is a one-and-a-half-story California Bungalow with a gabled roof, clapboarded exterior, shed-roof dormer, and diamond-pane windows. The original birthplace property encompassed approximately eight acres, though portions were sold off in 1922 and 1925.
The house was designated a historic site by the Yorba Linda School District and local citizens in 1959. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 17, 1971 (reference #71000171), designated a National Historic Landmark on May 31, 1973, and designated California Historical Landmark #1015 on October 1, 1994. The landmarked area encompasses approximately three acres, a smaller footprint than the nine-acre overall library site. The Yorba Linda School District later purchased the largest remaining portion of the property and used the house for employee housing before transferring it to Nixon's nonprofit library organization in 1988, which established the museum on the site.
The library's construction and current operations
The library was dedicated on July 19, 1990, with initial construction estimated at $25 million. The Katharine B. Loker Center and Annenberg Court addition, totaling 38,000 square feet, was constructed in 2004. In 2016, the facility underwent a renovation costing approximately $15 million and was rededicated on October 14, 2016.
The facility became federally operated on July 11, 2007, and is jointly operated by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the Richard Nixon Foundation. The archives hold approximately 46 million pages of White House records and opened to researchers in March 1994. Visitors may tour the birthplace home interior when weather conditions permit, and the grounds display the exterior of the Army One and Marine One helicopters.
Insurance connection: home
Homeowners in Yorba Linda should ensure their dwelling coverage reflects replacement cost rather than market value, since homeowners policies do not cover land value. Standard policies typically cover fire, windstorm, hail, theft, and vandalism but explicitly exclude flood, earthquake, and mold damage. Not all replacement-cost policies include ordinance-or-law upgrade coverage, which addresses changes required by updated building codes. Following California wildfires, many homes have been underinsured, with owners facing added costs for debris removal and new foundations required by current codes. Coverage details and eligibility depend on the individual policy. The issued policy controls.
Primary sources: official visitor information, Wikipedia library entry, Wikipedia birthplace entry.
Insurance context is general information only. The issued policy and its endorsements settle coverage.