Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States, spent part of his boyhood in Augusta when his father served as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. The family home on Telfair Street has been carefully restored to its 1860s appearance and is open for guided tours.
The house itself is a fine example of an upper-middle-class Southern home of the period, and the guides are knowledgeable about both the Wilson family's time here and Wilson's later career. The tour takes about 45 minutes. Wilson lived here as a teenager and watched Confederate troops march past the front steps during the Civil War — a formative experience that shaped his later views on national reconciliation.
The home is managed by Historic Augusta and sits in a residential block a short walk from the centre of town. Admission is modest and the tours are worth taking even for visitors with limited interest in presidential history, for the quality of the restoration alone.