Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House

No house better reflects the personality and interests of its owner than Theodore Roosevelt's cherished Sagamore Hill. After Roosevelt returned to Oyster Bay following the death of both his beloved wife and mother, he and his second wife, Edith, made the house a home for their growing and rambunctious family. What began as the perfect getaway from unhealthy New York City summers in his grandfather's day became the Summer White House during Roosevelt's presidency. He hosted political guests like Henry Cabot Lodge and cultural luminaries like novelist Edith Wharton. Roosevelt spent his final years happily at Sagamore Hill, and after his death in 1919, the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the National Park Service preserved the house. With previously unpublished photographs and a detailed guide to the house and grounds, historian Bill Bleyer recounts bygone days at Roosevelt's haven.
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Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House

No house better reflects the personality and interests of its owner than Theodore Roosevelt's cherished Sagamore Hill. After Roosevelt returned to Oyster Bay following the death of both his beloved wife and mother, he and his second wife, Edith, made the house a home for their growing and rambunctious family. What began as the perfect getaway from unhealthy New York City summers in his grandfather's day became the Summer White House during Roosevelt's presidency. He hosted political guests like Henry Cabot Lodge and cultural luminaries like novelist Edith Wharton. Roosevelt spent his final years happily at Sagamore Hill, and after his death in 1919, the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the National Park Service preserved the house. With previously unpublished photographs and a detailed guide to the house and grounds, historian Bill Bleyer recounts bygone days at Roosevelt's haven.
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Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House

Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House

by Bill Bleyer
Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House

Sagamore Hill: Theodore Roosevelt's Summer White House

by Bill Bleyer

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No house better reflects the personality and interests of its owner than Theodore Roosevelt's cherished Sagamore Hill. After Roosevelt returned to Oyster Bay following the death of both his beloved wife and mother, he and his second wife, Edith, made the house a home for their growing and rambunctious family. What began as the perfect getaway from unhealthy New York City summers in his grandfather's day became the Summer White House during Roosevelt's presidency. He hosted political guests like Henry Cabot Lodge and cultural luminaries like novelist Edith Wharton. Roosevelt spent his final years happily at Sagamore Hill, and after his death in 1919, the Theodore Roosevelt Association and the National Park Service preserved the house. With previously unpublished photographs and a detailed guide to the house and grounds, historian Bill Bleyer recounts bygone days at Roosevelt's haven.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781467118095
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 10/03/2016
Series: Landmarks
Pages: 176
Sales rank: 484,150
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author


Bill Bleyer was a prize-winning staff writer for Newsday, the Long Island daily newspaper, for thirty-three years before retiring in 2014. He is co-author of Long Island and the Civil War, published in 2015 by The History Press, and has been published in Civil War News, Naval History, Sea History, Lighthouse Digest, the New York Times, Chicago Sun-Times, the Toronto Star and others. Bleyer graduated from Hofstra University and earned a master's in urban studies at Queens College of CUNY.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 11

1 The Roosevelts Come to Oyster Bay 15

2 Building Leeholm 21

3 A Rising Politician's Home 31

4 The Summer White House 53

5 The Post-Presidential Years 75

6 Edith Roosevelt on Her Own 93

7 Theodore Roosevelt Association Saves Sagamore 103

8 A National Historic Site 115

Appendix: The House and Grounds Today 127

Notes 135

Bibliography 145

Index 155

About the Author 157

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