Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday and some holidays. Children 12 and younger are admitted free. Admission is free on Wednesdays, compliments of the Schmidlapp Trusts with Fifth Third Bank. The William Howard Taft National Historic Site, where the president was born, is two miles away on Auburn Avenue, near Christ Hospital. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily, except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's.
Admission is free.
The birthplace residence is owned by the National Park Service. Dec. 2 will bring the 25th anniversary of being designated a national historic site. The Park Service did not begin serious restoration until the late 1980s and opened the boyhood home as a museum in 1988. The brothers had the same father, Alphonso, but different mothers. Although slightly built, Charles was a distinguished looking man.