CSPAN3 American Artifacts Eleanor Roosevelts Val-Kill Cottage February 23, 2018
First National Historic site to be dedicated to a first lady, and the only Historic Site dedicated to one first lady. Val kill encompasses two major buildings. The Stone Cottage was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors nancy cook and mary dickerman. It was land that fdr had purchased in 1911 to do forest ri experiment forestry on, but by the time 1940 came along, she was getting active in her own political life and she needed a place to have friends and associates and talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr said that the big h...