| William Jennings Bryan Boyhood Home | |
| Location: | 408 S. Broadway, Salem, Illinois |
| Coordinates: | 38.6283°N -88.9481°W |
| Built: | 1852 |
| Added: | February 18, 1975 |
| Refnum: | 75000668 |
The William Jennings Bryan Boyhood Home is a historic house located at 408 S. Broadway in Salem, Illinois. The house was the birthplace and boyhood home of William Jennings Bryan, three-time Democratic Party nominee for president. The two-story frame house was built in 1852 for Silas Bryan, an Illinois State Senator and father of William Jennings Bryan. William Jennings Bryan was born in the home in 1860.[1]
The city of Salem operates the home as a museum, including information and memorabilia about Bryan, his politics and his times. Bryan himself donated the house to the city in the early 1900s, as he wished for it to become a museum.[1] The house features two main rooms in the front, a kitchen and a dining room in back, and three bedrooms upstairs.
The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.