Teedie Roosevelt's Birthplace
- aurel53
- Mar 27, 2015
- 2 min read
If you walk down 20th Street, there is a three story home. It does not have a statue in front, it only has a few plaques informing you that this was the birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt.
A visit to his birthplace on 20th Street in Manhattan, one gets to know more about his child-hood. This is a recreated home of his family and the National Parks Service offers tours of this home. The original home demolished in 1906; the recreated home built in 1916 after his death
by the Women's Roosevelt Memorial Association. He suffered with asthma, but pushed himself to overcome this debilitating health issue. As a young boy, his quest for knowledge took him to learn taxidermy and many of his small specimens are at the museum of Natural History. He learned how to shoot and when he went out west, he was a hunter. One learns so much about Teedie's youth at this museum.
There are three floors with each room decorated as it would have been when he lived there. There was a small room with a bookshelf and it contained his books. I was impressed for he wrote thirty-five books covering the politics, the west and other topics that interested him. You also got to see the dining room and it contained the grandfather's dinning room table. The Parks Service tour guide provided a great deal of informatin on our twenty-sixth president.
If you have never been to this historic site, you should check it out for it is a wonderful way to learn about this president. When I revisited it, there were a several groups of children there and we had the company of teenagers as we viewed the half hour film on him.
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