BGuthrie Photos: GA -- Warm Springs -- FDR's Little White House SHS

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FDR_030828_005.JPG: For some reason, two of FDR's cars are featured at the site. The sign on this identifies it as such: Custom-Built 1940 Willys Roadster This car was custom built by Willys-Overland of Toledo, Ohio for President Franklin D Roosevelt. G Hall Roosevelt gave this car to the President on his fifth-eighth birthday in 1940. This car was used by the President's staff and later by the staff of the George Warm Springs Foundation.
2. FDR_030828_016.JPG: I thought this was pretty cool. This is the walkway up to the museum. Each state is represented by its flag and a stone. The stone is typically a state rock, frequently carved in the shape of the state.
3. FDR_030828_026.JPG: This famous photo was taken outside of the Warm Springs cottage when Roosevelt died. The accordionist had signed it for the museum.
4. FDR_030828_045.JPG: The cottage is in the distance. There's a swing gate in front. There are two guard booths on either side. The spartan one on the left is the Marine outpost. There's another, more plush one on the other side for the secret service.
5. FDR_030828_075.JPG: The portrait on the right is the famous unfinished portrait that was being painted when he had his seizure in this room. This would have been the painting of Roosevelt that would have hung in the White House with the other Presidential portraits.
6. FDR_030828_084.JPG: FDR had a preference for sea themes, as evidenced both here at his estate in Hyde Park. He had been Secretary of the Navy at one point.
7. FDR_030828_091.JPG: The back porch. The trees weren't as thick during his time and he could apparently see the Marine camp near town.
8. FDR_030828_095.JPG: FDR's bedroom.
9. FDR_030828_109.JPG: Eleanor's bedroom. She seldom visited. Note that none of the beds here could comfortably sleep more than one person.
10. FDR_030828_130.JPG: Another car
11. FDR_030828_142.JPG: According to the sign: The Little White House Franklin D Roosevelt came to Warm Springs in 1924 in hopes of recovering from the effects of polio. His love for the area and hopes for the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation led him to build a small white clapboard cottage on these pine scented slopes. The house was completed in 1932 while FDR was serving as Governor of New York. During FDR's four elected terms as 32nd President, the cottage became known as "The Little White House." It was designed by architect Henry Toombs who also designed many of the Foundation buildings. The cost was $8.738 including landscaping. The cottage, garage, servants quarters and guest house are preserved much like they were on April 12 1945 when FDR died of a massive stroke as he was sitting for a portrait. The "Unfinished Portrait" and many of FDR's personal belongings can be seen in the cottage and in an adjacent museum. During the busy years between 1932 and 1945, FDR only visited his beloved Little White House on 16 occasions while he and the nation struggled through the Great Depression of 1929 and then World War II. Many of the solutions of the "people problems" that beset the nation during his presidency came to FDR as the result of his association with the people of this area.
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Wikipedia Description: Little White House
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The Little White House was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's retreat near Warm Springs, Georgia. He first came to Warm Springs for treatment of his paralytic illness, and liked the area so much that, as Governor of New York, he had a home built on nearby Pine Mountain. The house was finished in 1932.

Roosevelt kept the house after he became President, using it as a Presidential retreat.

The Little White House was the site of President Roosevelt's death. The house was opened to the public as a museum in 1948. A major attraction of the museum is the portrait that artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff was painting of him when he died, now known as the "Unfinished Portrait." It hangs near a finished portrait that Shoumatoff completed later from sketches and memory.

Little White House Historic Site is operated by the State of Georgia.
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