Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

Infobox Protected area
name = Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
iucn_category =

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caption =
locator_x = 252
locator_y = 60
location = Dutchess County, New York, USA
nearest_city = Hyde Park, New York
lat_degrees = 41
lat_minutes = 47
lat_seconds = 09
lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 73
long_minutes = 56
long_seconds = 07
long_direction = W
area = 181 acres (0.73 km²)
established = May 27, 1977
visitation_num = 52,690
visitation_year = 2005
governing_body = National Park Service

Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site (Val-Kill) consists of convert|180|acre|km2 approximately two miles east of Springwood, the Hyde Park Roosevelt family home. FDR encouraged Eleanor Roosevelt to develop this property as a place that she could develop some of her ideas for work with winter jobs for rural workers and women. There are two buildings which are adjacent to Fallkill Creek. Stone Cottage, the original cottage which was home to Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, which they sold back to Eleanor in 1947 and a large two-story stuccoed building that housed Val-Kill Industries and which would become Eleanor's home after Franklin's death. It was the only residence that she personally owned.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter signed a proclamation making it the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site. In 1984 the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill negotiated an agreement with the National Park Service and made Stone Cottage its home.

References

* Cook, Blanche Wiesen. "Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume One, 1884-1933". New York: Viking Press, 1993
* Cook, Blanche Wiesen. "Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume Two, 1933-1938". New York: Viking Press, 1999
* Davis, Kenneth. "Invincible Summer: An Intimate Portrait of the Roosevelts Based on the Recollections of Marion Dickerman". New York: Atheneum Press, 1974

External links

* [http://www.nps.gov/elro/index.htm National Park Service: Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site]
* [http://www.oldhouseweb.com/stories/Detailed/10257.shtml Val-Kill, The Old House Web]
* [http://www.ervk.org/ Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill]
* [http://www.nps.gov/history/NR/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/26roosevelt/26roosevelt.htm "First Lady of the World: Eleanor Roosevelt at Val-Kill," a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places (TwHP) lesson plan]