Good morning, everyone, and welcome to the White House Historical association and our 2023 symposium, the white house in Popular Culture hosted by the Association Good morning, Everyone Welcome to the White House Historical association and are 2023 symposium, the white house and Popular Culture, hosted by the association and our two friends and partners the john w center for the library of congress. I am Stuart Mclaurin and i have the privilege of being the president of the White House Historical association and i see many familiar friends and faces here today and those joining us and our own digital coverage its great to have all of you joining us here today as well i want to recognize three of my colleagues who have been involved and many here at the association have played a roll making today happened in these annual symposiums which are actually a yearlong effort to put together. We start with a colloquium of scholars in the fall and focus on a topic or subject with our partner. In
Roosevelt originally had a different estate down the road. The house burned to the ground fdrs father, james roosevelt, purchased the home in to be their new the Hudson Valley. James andnts were sarah delano roosevelt. Mr. James roosevelt had a wife before sarah named rebecca howland. She passed away in 1876. In 1880, mr. James married sarah delano. When he married sarah, he was 52 years old, and she was only 26 years old. She was half his age. James and sarah only had the one child, Franklin Delano roosevelt. When mr. James roosevelt bought this property in 1867, it was a 17 room farmhouse with about 110 acres of land and several outbuildings. He paid the price of what would be an expensive car these days, but back then it would have been he had a growing family, and he decided as early as 1907 that he was going to be, president of the United States one day going to become president of the quite often, events would be held here such as when he announced he would run for Vice President
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Park ranger who leads us on a tour of the historic site. This was home. This is where his heart always was and he wants said, my heart has always been here and always will be. This is where he had strength and happiness throughout his entire life. Roosevelt, the 32 president of the United States, was born and raised in this house. He was buried on the estate as well. Roosevelt originally had a different estate a little bit down the road from this property. The house burned to the ground in 1865. Fdrs father, mr. James roosevelt, purchased this property to be their new home. Parent were james and Sarah Roosevelt. Mr. James roosevelt had a wife before sarah. Her name is rebecca. She passed away in 1876 and four years later in 1880, mr. James married sarah. When he married sarah, he was 52 years old. She was only 26. She was half of his age. James and sarah only had the one child, franklin roosevelt. Brought this property in 1867, it was a 17 room farmhouse. It was about 110 acres of land
Different estate a little bit down the road from this property. And the house burned to the ground in 1865. And then fdrs father, mr. James roosevelt, purchased this property to be their new home in the Hudson Valley. Fdrs paris were james and sarah delano roosevelt. And mr. James roosevelt had a wife before sarah named rebecca howland. And she passed away in 1876. And four years later in 1880, mr. James married sarah delano. Mr. James roosevelt when he married sarah was about 52 years old, and she was only 26 years was half his age. And james and sarah only had the one child, Franklin Delano roosevelt. When mr. James roosevelt, fdrs father bought this property in , 1867, it was a 17 room farmhouse with about 110 acres of land, several outbuildings, for which he paid the sum of 40,000 which was today the price of an expensive car these days, but back then it would have been a rather nice amount of money. The house was enlarged by fdr in a 1915 because he had a growing family, and he de