Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace timeline

July 1990: The privately funded Richard Nixon Foundation opens the Nixon Library and Birthplace on a 9-acre site in Yorba Linda that contained the simple two-story house where the future president was born. A gallery displays papers, photographs and personal possessions from Nixon’s life before and after his presidency. His presidential papers remained in the possession of the federal National Archives and Records Administration, mostly in College Park, Md.

August 2004: The 47,000-square foot Katherine B. Loker Center, including gallery space, meeting rooms, a grand entrance and a life-size replica of the elegant White House East Room opens. It nearly doubles the size of the library.

July 2007: The Nixon Foundation enters a joint operating agreement with NARA, which allows Nixon’s presidential records to be stored at the library. A new name comes with this: the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. NARA operates the library, while the foundation continues to raise private funds to support it.

July 2015: The library announces a $25-million renovation of its 25-year-old galleries, which will closed for a year beginning Sept. 28. Other exhibits will remain open, and scheduled programs will continue.