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NYC - Gramercy: Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
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Theodore Roosevelt was born in a modest gothic brownstone house here, at 28 East 20th Street, on October 27, 1858. He lived in the house until he was 14 years old. Much altered after the Roosevelt family moved uptown in 1872, it was demolished in 1916, three years prior to his death. The Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association, founded with the intention of preserving Roosevelt's memory, purchased the birthplace site, along with the adjacent home (also significantly altered) of Theodore's uncle, Robert Roosevelt. The assocation proceeded to demolish the uncle's house and commissioned Thodate Pope Riddle, one of the first female architects in America, to <reconstruct the childhome home as it had existed in 1865, when a mansard roof had been added and the interiors redisnged. A modest museum wing was built on the adjoining site. It was rededicated in 1923 and furnished by the President's widow, Edith, and sisters. The Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site was authorized on July 25, 1962.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States, and a Nobel Peace laureate, New York governor, NYC Police Commissioner, historian, naturalist, Amazon explorer, and author. He became President in 1901 after the assassination of President William McKinley. A Progressive reformer who sought to move the Republican Party into the Progressive camp, he distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved 40 monopolistic corporations as a "trust buster." His "Square Deal" promised a fair shake for the average citizen, including regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs. As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906, he moved left, attacking big business and suggesting the courts were biased against labor unions. In 1910, he lost the GOP nomination to friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft, but ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose ticket. Roosevelt lost but pulled so many Progressives out of the GOP that Democrat Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, and the conservative faction took control of the GOP for the next two decades.
As Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, he prepared for and advocated war with Spain in 1898. He organized and helped command the first U.S. volunteer cavalry regiment, the Rough Riders, during the Spanish-American War. Returning to New York as a war hero, he was elected Republican governor in 1898. He was a professional historian, naturalist and explorer of the Amazon Basin; his 35 books include works on outdoor life, natural history, the American frontier, political history, naval history, and his autobiography. Roosevelt understood the strategic significance of the Panama Canal, and negotiated for the U.S. to take control of its construction in 1904; he felt that the Canal's completion was his most important and historically significant international achievement. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize, winning its Peace Prize in 1906, for negotiating the peace in the Russo-Japanese War.
Roosvelt's image stands alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore and surveys of scholars have consistently ranked him from #3 to #7 on the list of greatest American presidents.
The Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966.
National Register #66000054 (1966)
NYC - Gramercy: Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
Image by wallyg
Theodore Roosevelt was born in a modest gothic brownstone house here, at 28 East 20th Street, on October 27, 1858. He lived in the house until he was 14 years old. Much altered after the Roosevelt family moved uptown in 1872, it was demolished in 1916, three years prior to his death. The Woman's Roosevelt Memorial Association, founded with the intention of preserving Roosevelt's memory, purchased the birthplace site, along with the adjacent home (also significantly altered) of Theodore's uncle, Robert Roosevelt. The assocation proceeded to demolish the uncle's house and commissioned Thodate Pope Riddle, one of the first female architects in America, to <reconstruct the childhome home as it had existed in 1865, when a mansard roof had been added and the interiors redisnged. A modest museum wing was built on the adjoining site. It was rededicated in 1923 and furnished by the President's widow, Edith, and sisters. The Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site was authorized on July 25, 1962.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., also known as T.R. and to the public as Teddy, was the 26th President of the United States, and a Nobel Peace laureate, New York governor, NYC Police Commissioner, historian, naturalist, Amazon explorer, and author. He became President in 1901 after the assassination of President William McKinley. A Progressive reformer who sought to move the Republican Party into the Progressive camp, he distrusted wealthy businessmen and dissolved 40 monopolistic corporations as a "trust buster." His "Square Deal" promised a fair shake for the average citizen, including regulation of railroad rates and pure foods and drugs. As an outdoorsman, he promoted the conservation movement, emphasizing efficient use of natural resources. After 1906, he moved left, attacking big business and suggesting the courts were biased against labor unions. In 1910, he lost the GOP nomination to friend and anointed successor William Howard Taft, but ran in the 1912 election on his own one-time Bull Moose ticket. Roosevelt lost but pulled so many Progressives out of the GOP that Democrat Woodrow Wilson won in 1912, and the conservative faction took control of the GOP for the next two decades.
As Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Navy, he prepared for and advocated war with Spain in 1898. He organized and helped command the first U.S. volunteer cavalry regiment, the Rough Riders, during the Spanish-American War. Returning to New York as a war hero, he was elected Republican governor in 1898. He was a professional historian, naturalist and explorer of the Amazon Basin; his 35 books include works on outdoor life, natural history, the American frontier, political history, naval history, and his autobiography. Roosevelt understood the strategic significance of the Panama Canal, and negotiated for the U.S. to take control of its construction in 1904; he felt that the Canal's completion was his most important and historically significant international achievement. He was the first American to be awarded the Nobel Prize, winning its Peace Prize in 1906, for negotiating the peace in the Russo-Japanese War.
Roosvelt's image stands alongside Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln on Mount Rushmore and surveys of scholars have consistently ranked him from #3 to #7 on the list of greatest American presidents.
The Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1966.
National Register #66000054 (1966)
