Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter House

	Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter House
	U.S. Historic district; Contributing property
	Front facade of 209 Woodland Drive, 1979
Location	209 Woodland Drive; Plains, Georgia
Coordinates	32°02′08″N 84°24′06″W / 32.03556°N 84.40167°W
Built	1960
Part of	Jimmy Carter National Historical Park (ID01000272)

The home of Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter, president and first lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981, is located at 209 Woodland Drive in Plains, Georgia, United States. It is the only house that the Carters ever owned, and they occupied it from 1961 until Rosalynn's death in 2023 and Jimmy's in 2024.^[1]

The house was built by the Carters in 1960, and additional work on the home occurred in 1974 and 1981.^[2]^[1] The Carters knocked down a wall themselves during remodeling of the house in the 2010s.^[3] Rosalynn Carter described the work of knocking down the wall as "second-nature" due to the couple's extensive work with the charity Habitat for Humanity.^[3]

The one-story house is set on a lot of 2.4 acres (0.97 ha); it was built at a price of $10 per square foot (equivalent to $103 in 2023).^[2]^[3] The house was built to accommodate the Carters' growing family; they had three young sons, James, Donnel, and Jack, at the time of its construction.^[2] It had four bedrooms at the time of its construction in 1960.^[2]

The Historic American Buildings Survey describes the house as a "modest 1960s ranch-style house".^[1] In a 2018 profile of the Carters' life in Plains for The Washington Post, Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan described the house as "dated, but homey and comfortable".^[3]

A pond on the grounds was personally dug by Jimmy Carter; he used it for fly fishing.^[3] A magnolia tree on the grounds was grown from a tree on the lawn of the White House that was planted by President Andrew Jackson.^[3]

Rosalynn Carter is buried on the grounds of the house by a willow tree on the lawn of the property.^[4] Jimmy Carter will be buried next to her.^[3] The home is part of the Jimmy Carter National Historical Park but is not open to the public. The deed to the house has been granted to the National Park Service (NPS) who will turn the house into a museum and open it to public tours at a time to be determined after Carter's funeral.^[3]^[5] The property is protected by the U.S. Secret Service. The Federal Government purchased the adjacent property at 1 Woodland Drive (referred as "Gnann House") in 1981 following the Carters' return from Washington D.C. for use by the Secret Service.^[6]^[7]

The Carters were actively involved in planning the future museum; their involvement as living participants in a presidential home museum project is unique.^[5] Future tours would include the pool, tennis courts and back patio of the house; new paths and benches would be constructed.^[5] Jimmy Carter's wood shop would also be on display.^[5] The NPS plans to make the proposed museum of the house reflect the couple's use of the residence "as a place for both refuge and recreation". The garden will be managed along environmental principles to reflect Rosalynn Carter's interest in a pollinator garden.^[5]