CSPAN3 Eleanor Roosevelts Val-Kill January 4, 2018
Certainly this became the very First National Historic Site to be dedicated to a first lady. And the only Historic Site dedicated to one first lady. Well, valkill encompasses two major buildings. The first building, the stone cottage, was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors nancy dook and marianne dickerman. It was build on the eastern most part of the roosevelt property at the time. It was land fdr purchased in 1911 to do forestry experiments on. He offered to build eleanor a Little Cottage here because by the early 1920s she was g...