On Wednesday 20Jan2010, I decided to visit the Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace Museum in Manhattan located 28th East 20th Street between Park Ave and Broadway.
I took the F train subway from Forest Hills Station to Lexington Ave and transfer to the #6 train downtown and get off at 23rd street station. Just a couple block walk to the museum which is located in the middle of the block.
This place was a reconstruction of the brownstone in which President Roosevelt was born and grew up and located on the same spot. There was a guided tour at 1pm but having gotten to the museum a early, I had a chance to look around the first floor gallery on images and artifacts of Roosevelt's life. This included information of his ancestors up through is political career and post-public life.
It was rather informative with much information. At 1pm me and two others gathered at the entrance where the tour guide took us up one flight of stairs to the second floor of the museum. There was a main gallery of TR's personnel belongs most prominently a large oak desk which he used at home and when he was Seceratary of the Navy. On each side of the desk was a woodend engraving of the iron clads during the US Civil War.
On the second floor was also the Guess room, the family room and the main dining room. Very nice with lots of the original furniture for the Roosevelt's collection. Some items that were not original were found that were of the same period and something the family probably used.
Going on the the third floor were the bedroom areas. The first room were for the little kids as they were just infants. Attached to this room was an interesting exit to the back of the house, where the Roosevelts had set up a gym for thier children particularly TR, as he was asthmatic and his parents thought regular exercise would be beneficial.
Next to this room was the masterbed room where TR's parents slept. A large painting of TR's mother was in the room. A very nice desk, bed and amore were in the room, items donated by the Roosevelt family.
Along the hallway next to the masterbed room was a small room. The tour guide mentioned that no one knows what this room was used for but it was in the original plans for the house and was made. Inside was the original wooden file cabinent where TR filed his articles when he worked for the Kansas City Newspaper. Also a list of book TR wrote. He wrote and read alot during his life, very amazing.
This was the end of the tour and I hang around the second floor gallery to take a better look at the artifacts there. The tour took about 45 minutes with the guide full of information of the house, the Roosevelt family and Theodore Roosevelt's life.
It was a nice tour of a great man, the only American President born in New York City. If one is ever in New York I recommend going.
I took the F train subway from Forest Hills Station to Lexington Ave and transfer to the #6 train downtown and get off at 23rd street station. Just a couple block walk to the museum which is located in the middle of the block.
This place was a reconstruction of the brownstone in which President Roosevelt was born and grew up and located on the same spot. There was a guided tour at 1pm but having gotten to the museum a early, I had a chance to look around the first floor gallery on images and artifacts of Roosevelt's life. This included information of his ancestors up through is political career and post-public life.
It was rather informative with much information. At 1pm me and two others gathered at the entrance where the tour guide took us up one flight of stairs to the second floor of the museum. There was a main gallery of TR's personnel belongs most prominently a large oak desk which he used at home and when he was Seceratary of the Navy. On each side of the desk was a woodend engraving of the iron clads during the US Civil War.
On the second floor was also the Guess room, the family room and the main dining room. Very nice with lots of the original furniture for the Roosevelt's collection. Some items that were not original were found that were of the same period and something the family probably used.
Going on the the third floor were the bedroom areas. The first room were for the little kids as they were just infants. Attached to this room was an interesting exit to the back of the house, where the Roosevelts had set up a gym for thier children particularly TR, as he was asthmatic and his parents thought regular exercise would be beneficial.
Next to this room was the masterbed room where TR's parents slept. A large painting of TR's mother was in the room. A very nice desk, bed and amore were in the room, items donated by the Roosevelt family.
Along the hallway next to the masterbed room was a small room. The tour guide mentioned that no one knows what this room was used for but it was in the original plans for the house and was made. Inside was the original wooden file cabinent where TR filed his articles when he worked for the Kansas City Newspaper. Also a list of book TR wrote. He wrote and read alot during his life, very amazing.
This was the end of the tour and I hang around the second floor gallery to take a better look at the artifacts there. The tour took about 45 minutes with the guide full of information of the house, the Roosevelt family and Theodore Roosevelt's life.
It was a nice tour of a great man, the only American President born in New York City. If one is ever in New York I recommend going.
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