[2][1][3] As President Polk's primary historic site it is open daily (except select holidays) for guided tours.

He would move into a home down the street with his wife Sarah Childress around the same time in 1824 where they spent the longest duration of their lives together.

Some exterior items were moved to the site after Polk Place, the president's later home, was demolished including the fountain, garden urns, and other pieces.

[4][5] Shortly after the president's death his wife Sarah Polk fostered a great niece, Sallie Fall.

In 1929 Mrs. Grant, along with the state of Tennessee, purchased the home, and moved the contents of Polk Place that she had inherited from her mother to the site.

[10] Though it subsequently failed the state legislature on March 19, 2018, it went before the house Calendar & Rules Committee where they allowed to let it go before the floor again on April 9, 2018, where it passed by 51–47.