On this site, on a rainy August night in 1908, Lyndon Baines Johnson, the future 36th President of the United States, was born. He was the first son of Sam Ealy Johnson, Jr., a state legislator, and Rebekah Baines Johnson, an educator and journalist, and he lived here for the first five years of his life. The original birth home was built in 1889 by his grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, Sr., who said of the young boy, “I have a mighty fine grandson, smart as you find them. I expect him to be United States Senator before he is forty.” Lyndon Johnson’s parents moved here after their marriage in 1907 and farmed the surrounding land between Sam, Jr.’s, trips to the legislature in Austin. The original home was removed in the 1940s. In 1964, President and Mrs. Johnson had the building now on the site constructed as a guest house for visitors to the LBJ Ranch; it stands on the site of and closely resembles the original home, though it was never intended as a literal reconstruction, and it is furnished with Johnson and Taylor family mementos spanning many generations.