CSPAN3 American Artifacts Eleanor Roosevelts Val-Kill Cottage February 5, 2018
Buildings. The first cottage was built in 1925 to serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors. Easternmost on the end of the roosevelt property at the time. It was planned that fdr purchased to do experiments on. He offered to build his wife a Little Cottage here because, by the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life. She really needed her own space to bring friends and associates. And a place where she could talk politics. And plan political strategy. Fdr realizes the big house really did not serve Eleanor Roosevelts purpose well because that was...
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