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9.14
The FDR Gardens and some pictures of a few of the rooms in the house.
Above and below; the FDR home library.
The Snuggery “The Dining Room”
FDR was crippled suffering from polio. The family bedrooms were on the second floor. Personally I would have relocated the bedroom to the first floor, not that the house wasn’t big enough, but getting back. In order for him to get to the upper level he had a dumb waiter installed. The contractor installed the unit wanted to electrify the waiter, but FDR said NO! He weighed about 180 pounds and his chair another 50 pounds not to mention the weight of the dumb waiter. Every evening he would move his chair into the dumb waiter and manually use the ropes you see in the picture and raise himself using upper body muscles to the upper level. He was remarkably strong for his age and his being handicapped.
The Chintz Room
The FDR Bedroom
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Bedroom
FDR’s Boyhood Bedroom
Above the back of the home. Below the front of the home.
Springwood as it looked around the time James Roosevelt (FDR’s father) purchased it. He (James Roosevelt) and his wife rally wanted to buy a home with property in Rhinebeck, NY, but homes and land were to expensive so they settled on Hyde Park for the family homestead.
Above and below is the FDR gardens at their home and where FDR and wife Eleanor are buried.
The entrance to the Library.
In the pictures to follow are just a small fraction of the hundreds of posters FDR initiated to spur on the war effort.
The caption above is there to give the reader a small insight into how, even as a President, grounded he was both as a politician and family man.
The FDR Presidential desk.
The 1936 Ford Phaeton. This car came equipped with a gadget that, when initiated by FDR, would deliver a “lighted” cigarette for him while he was driving, yes the car was set up for him to drive even though he had no lower body abilities. FDR was an advid model builder. He had built hundreds in the collection in the Library.
