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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. TRBPM_161220_010.JPG: Roosevelt and Sons
2. TRBPM_161220_017.JPG: Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt
3. TRBPM_161220_020.JPG: Margaret Barnhill Roosevelt
4. TRBPM_161220_025.JPG: Robert Barnwell Roosevelt
5. TRBPM_161220_031.JPG: Theodore Roosevelt Sr.
6. TRBPM_161220_034.JPG: This cup and saucer were used in the birthplace during the 1860s and 1870s. The design on the cup is the Roosevelt family coat of arms.
7. TRBPM_161220_041.JPG: Martha Bulloch Roosevelt
8. TRBPM_161220_045.JPG: The Roosevelts' Civil War
9. TRBPM_161220_049.JPG: Anna Roosevelt
10. TRBPM_161220_052.JPG: Theodore Roosevelt
11. TRBPM_161220_055.JPG: Roosevelt used this oversize cup at Sagamore Hill
12. TRBPM_161220_060.JPG: Elliot Roosevelt
13. TRBPM_161220_063.JPG: Corrine Roosevelt
14. TRBPM_161220_067.JPG: Edith Kermit Carow
15. TRBPM_161220_072.JPG: Reproduced below are a paper doll and two dresses from a play set that belonged to Edith when she was a young girl.
16. TRBPM_161220_073.JPG: James and Irvine Bulloch
17. TRBPM_161220_076.JPG: Lincoln's Funeral Procession
18. TRBPM_161220_091.JPG: Theodore's Turning Point
19. TRBPM_161220_095.JPG: The Roosevelts in Egypt
20. TRBPM_161220_104.JPG: Alice Hathaway Lee
21. TRBPM_161220_109.JPG: February, Thursday 14, 1884 X The light has gone out of my life
22. TRBPM_161220_111.JPG: Billy club used by TR while New York Police Commissioner, 1895-1897
23. TRBPM_161220_123.JPG: Plaque
24. TRBPM_161220_134.JPG: His speech (subsequently bound) and spectacles case were probably instrumental in saving his life.
25. TRBPM_161220_137.JPG: The shirt TR was wearing on October 14th, 1912
26. TRBPM_161220_143.JPG: Campaign for New York State Assemblyman -- 1882
27. TRBPM_161220_145.JPG: New York City Mayoral Campaign -- 1886
28. TRBPM_161220_147.JPG: New York State Gubernatorial Campaign -- 1898
29. TRBPM_161220_155.JPG: Running for Vice President on McKinley Ticket -- 1900
30. TRBPM_161220_171.JPG: A Nation Mourns
31. TRBPM_161220_173.JPG: United States Presidential Campaign - 1904
32. TRBPM_161220_183.JPG: US Presidential Campaign of 1902 (Bull Moose Party)
33. TRBPM_161220_186.JPG: Theodore Roosevelt's Last Public Statement -- 1918 I cannot be with you and so all I can do is to wish you Godspeed. There must be no sagging back in the fight for Americanism merely because the war (World War 1) is over. There are plenty of persons who have already made the assertion that they believe the American people have a short memory and that they intend to revive all the foreign associations which most directly interfere with the complete Americanization of our people. "Our principle in this matter should be absolutely simple. In the first place we should insist that the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American, and 'assimilates himself to us. He shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separate, from the rest of America then he isn't doing his part as an American. "There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, is not an American at all. We have room but for one flag, the American flag, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile. We have room but for one language here and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding house; and we have room for but one sole loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people. Faithfully yours, T. Roosevelt (signed)
Wikipedia Description: Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site is a recreated brownstone at 28 East 20th Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue South, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

History

The house that originally stood on the site was built in 1848 and was bought by the Roosevelts in 1854. Theodore Roosevelt was born there on October 27, 1858, and lived in the house with his family until 1872, when the neighborhood began to become more commercial and the family moved uptown to West 57th Street.

The original building was demolished in 1916 to make way for retail space, but upon the death of Roosevelt in 1919 the lot was purchased and the house rebuilt by the Women's Roosevelt Memorial Association, which eventually merged with the Roosevelt Memorial Association in 1953 to form the Theodore Roosevelt Association. Noted female American architect Theodate Pope Riddle was given the task of reconstructing a replica of the house, as well as designing the museum, situated next door, that serves to complete the site. The row house next door at number 26, which was a twin to the Roosevelts', was used as a model, and some architectural elements from it were incorporated into the replica. The twin house was demolished to make space for the museum. The restoration recreates the house as it was in 1865.

The house was rededicated in 1923 and was subsequently refurbished with many furnishings from the original house by the President's widow, Edith, and his two sisters. The widow and sisters also supplied information about the interior's appearance during Roosevelt's residency.

The Theodore Roosevelt Association donated the birthplace to the National Park Service in 1963. As a National Historic Site, it was automatically listed on the National Register of Historic Places at its creation on October 15, 1966. It now serves as a museum dedicated to the life and contributions of the 26th President of the United States.

Roosevelt's recollection

Roosevelt described his memories of the home's interior in Chapter 1 of his 1913 autobiography:

On October 27, 1858, I was born at No. 28 East Twentieth Street, New York City, in the house in which we lived during the time that my two sisters and my brother and I were small children. It was furnished in the canonical taste of the New York which George William Curtis described in the Potiphar Papers. The black haircloth furniture in the dining-room scratched the bare legs of the children when they sat on it. The middle room was a library, with tables, chairs, and bookcases of gloomy respectability. It was without windows, and so was available only at night. The front room, the parlor, seemed to us children to be a room of much splendor, but was open for general use only on Sunday evening or on rare occasions when there were parties. The Sunday evening family gathering was the redeeming feature in a day which otherwise we children did not enjoy--chiefly because we were all of us made to wear clean clothes and keep neat. The ornaments of that parlor I remember now, including the glass chandelier decorated with a great quantity of cut-glass prisms. These prisms struck me as possessing peculiar magnificence. One of them fell off one day, and I hastily grabbed it and stowed it away, passing several days of furtive delight in the treasure, a delight always alloyed with fear that I would be found out and convicted of larceny. There was a Swiss wood-carving representing a very big hunter on one side of an exceedingly small mountain, and a herd of chamois, disproportionately small for the hunter and large for the mountain, just across the ridge. This always fascinated us; but there was a small chamois kid for which we felt agonies lest the hunter might come on it and kill it. There was also a Russian moujik drawing a gilt sledge on a piece of malachite. Some one mentioned in my hearing that malachite was a valuable marble. This fixed in my mind that it was valuable exactly as diamonds are valuable. I accepted that moujik as a priceless work of art, and it was not until I was well in middle age that it occurred to me that I was mistaken.
— Theodore Roosevelt

Architecture

The three-story brownstone house features a mansard roof, and a high stoop above the basement. The hooded moldings above the windows and doorway are in the Gothic Revival style.

In 2014, Theodate Pope Riddle was recognized for her work rebuilding the home, a winning site of Built by Women New York City, a competition launched by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation during the fall of 2014 to identify outstanding and diverse sites and spaces designed, engineered and built by women.
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