CSPAN Eleanor Roosevelts Val-Kill December 27, 2017
Purchased in 1911 to do forestry experiments on. He offered to build his wife eleanor a Little Cottage here because the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life, and she really needed her own space to bring friends and associates, to have a place for she could talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr realized the big house really didnt serve Eleanor Roosevelts purposes well, because that was her motherinlaws house and choose she used to say that for years, she was just a visitor 40 there. It was important for her to have her own space where she could really do things th...