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What Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill Home Reveals About His Personality

For nearly 30 years, Theodore Roosevelt made his home at Sagamore Hill, near Oyster Bay in Long Island, New York. The home, which became known as the Summer White House during Roosevelt’s presidency, was a remarkable reflection of the hobbies, interests and loves of the 26th president.

Roosevelt's fondest childhood memories took place in Long Island

Born in New York City in November 1858, Roosevelt’s paternal line traced its origins to some of the earliest and most prominent early Dutch settlers. His mother Martha, nicknamed Mittie, was the daughter of a wealthy Georgia cotton grower, and she maintained ties to her Southern family during the Civil War that broke out while Roosevelt was a child.

A frail, sickly youth, young Theodore was plagued by asthma. Encouraged by his father, Theodore Sr., whom he adored, Roosevelt began a punishing exercise regime to improve his health. Brimming over with kinetic energy, Roosevelt took up boxing, polo, tennis and in later years martial arts, including judo. An

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The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill

June 26, 2019

I must admit: even though the title says it all, I was amazed at what a departure this book took. This is the most domestic biography I ever read. Last January I was lucky enough to visit Sagamore Hill, and because few tourists ventured out on this frigid winter day, we were graced with extra tidbits from relaxed docents—and given extra time to observe this gorgeous home. Theodore Roosevelt’s presence was strong in every room on the main floor; there was no mistaking whose house it was. So I was especially charmed by this book's description of his lively, noisy, merry household:

“I don’t know when his morning began,” Hinchman wrote, twenty years later, “but by nine o’clock he had ridden horseback or taken a long tramp, eaten breakfast, and read through a veritable pile of magazines and newspapers. The reading alone would have killed the morning for an ordinary mortal. If a few minutes still remained before Mr. Loeb arrived at Sagamore Hill, the President joined his family on the porch, rocked hard, and talked harder…” Apparentl

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"The house stands right on the top of the hill, separatedby fields and belts of woodland from all other houses, and looks out over thebay and the Sound. We see the sun go down beyond long reaches of land and ofwater. ... We love all the seasons; the snows and bare woods of winter; the rushof growing things and the blossom-spray of spring; the yellow grain, theripening fruits and tasselled corn, and the deep, leafy shades that are heraldedby 'the green dance of summer'; and the sharp fall winds that tear the brilliantbanners with which the trees greet the dying year."
—Theodore Roosevelt

Refuge for a Public Man

When Theodore Roosevelt was 15, his father established thefamily's summer residence at Oyster Bay, where the boy spent vacations exploringthe nearby fields and woodlands of Cove Neck. Ten years later in 1880 youngRoosevelt and his fiancee Alice Hathaway Lee bought the hill on Cove Neck wherehis home now stands. The hill had no trees then, with a barn its only building.For this property he put down $10,000, assuming a 20-year mortgage for the$20,000 balance. Of the