President Eisenhower Place of Meditation, Abilene, Poster

"President Eisenhower Place of Meditation, Abilene, Kansas" by Catherine Sherman. A fountain graces the entrance of the Eisenhower Place of Meditation on the grounds of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library, Museum and Boyhood home in Abilene, Kansas. The Place of Meditation is the final resting place of Dwight David Eisenhower, October 14, 1890 - March 28, 1969; Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower, November 14, 1896 - November 1, 1979; and their first-born son, Doud Dwight Eisenhower, September 23, 1917 - January 2, 1921. The Place of Meditation was built in 1966 with private funds under the auspices of the Eisenhower Presidential Library Commission. President Eisenhower approved the design of the building.