Wetherell, Harrison & Wagner Associates. On August 8, 1992, former President Ronald Reagan rededicated the Library and Museum. The rededication was the result of a renovation project that expanded the library to . The $6.5-million expansion was a publicprivate partnership, with Washington supplying $5 million for bricks and mortar, supplementing $1.5 million raised by the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association for new exhibits. The architects for the 1992 expansion were HNTB Corp. Holding almost 300 collections, the Library is an important center for the study of conservative thought, agricultural economics, famine relief, commercial aviation, political journalism, government efficiency and reorganization, isolationism, and U.S. foreign policy. In addition to the papers of Herbert Hoover, the manuscript holdings include those of Lewis Strauss, Gerald P. Nye, Felix Morley, Clark Mollenhoff, Robert E. Wood, Westbrook Pegler, and Laura Ingalls Wilder, among others. The Library and Museum is located within the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, which contains Hoover's birthplace, a reconstruction of Hoover's father's blacksmith shop, a one-room schoolhouse, a Quaker meeting house, andon a hill overlooking the Library and Museum and Historic Sitethe graves of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover. See also Presidential memorials in the United States References External links The Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum "Life Portrait of Herbert Hoover", from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits, broadcast from the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library & Museum and the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, October 4, 1999 Opening and dedication of the Library, 1962 Universal International Newsreel, at 1m26s Presidential Library and Museum Landmarks in Iowa Library buildings completed in 1971 Libraries in Iowa Museums in Cedar County, Iowa Hoover Presidential Library and Museum Presidential museums in the United States Biographical museums in Iowa Tombs of presidents of the United States