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Basement floor plan of John Mason’s mansion on Analostan Island, later Theodore Roosevelt Island. This plan is a recreation based on the burnt remains of Mason’s mansion, photographs, and the style of construction. For more information please see Description of Mason House, THIS_100.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1936
Floor plan, elevations, and sections of an ancillary building to John Mason’s mansion on Analostan Island, later Theodore Roosevelt Island. The elevations show the vertical surface of the structure while the plan and top views show the general layout. The sections provide a vertical slice indicating the construction of the windows. This plan is a recreation based on the burnt remains of Mason’s mansion, photographs, and the style of construction. For more information please see Description of Mason House, THIS_100.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1936
Floor plan, elevations, and section of an ancillary building to John Mason’s mansion on Analostan Island, later called Theodore Roosevelt Island. The elevations show the vertical surface of the structure while the plan shows the general layout and the location of the cobblestone walkway. The sections provide a vertical slice indicating the construction of the wall. This plan is a recreation based on the burnt remains of Mason’s mansion, photographs, and the style of construction. For more information please see Description of Mason House, THIS_100.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1936
First floor plan of John Mason’s mansion on Analostan Island, later Theodore Roosevelt Island. This horizontal plan shows a proposed symmetrical layout for the structure. This plan is a recreation based on the burnt remains of Mason’s mansion, photographs, and the style of construction. For more information please see Description of Mason House, THIS_100.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1936
Plaster moulds, brickwork details, and floorplans plans of John Mason’s mansion on Analostan Island, later Theodore Roosevelt Island. In the top middle is a floor plan indicating the locations of plaster moulds found in the burnt remains of Mason’s mansion. The vertical slices of these moulds, shown on the bottom, show the size and shape of the decorations which once adorned that structure. There is a small floor plan and section of the ice house in the top right corner. In the left corner is a discussion of how the brickwork would have originally looked on the building. These details are a recreation based on the burnt remains of Mason’s mansion, photographs, and the style of construction. For more information please see Description of Mason House, THIS_100.
Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial
1936
Floor plan of the Elkhorn Ranch cabin based on a drawing which appeared in a letter from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt during a visit to the ranch in 1890.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Unknown
One page of a letter from Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt with a drawing of the floor plan of the Elkhorn Ranch cabin.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1890
Regional historian Merrill J. Mattes asks Superintendent Hanks to send a copy of Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt’s letter to her sister, which contains a map of the Elkhorn Ranch cabin, to the regional office. Mattes also requests a copy of Chester L. Brooks’s research to date. Original and copy.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1952-02-01
Historian Ray H. Mattison encloses a floor plan of the Elkhorn Ranch cabin that may have been drawn by Theodore Roosevelt. According to a sketch made by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and letters written by William Wingate Sewall, the completed cabin appears to have departed from the original plan.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1959-02-10
Photo negative of plans for the Elkhorn Ranch cabin, possibly drawn by Theodore Roosevelt. Two copies.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1885
Floor plan and elevation for the Elkhorn Ranch cabin.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1959-01-27
Historian Ray H. Mattison reviews a floor plan of the Elkhorn Ranch cabin from the William Wingate Sewall collection owned by Sewall’s daughter, Nancy Sewall Cunningham. He believes that the plan was drawn by Theodore Roosevelt.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
1959-02-10
A volume summarizing and recording the 1902 restoration and renovation of the White House, including the report by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White summarizing the extent of work that was done, historical notes regarding the White House, and many drawings and photographs of the construction work on the White House and Executive offices.
Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
1903
Extract from a letter written by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt that contains a sketch of the Elkhorn Ranch cabin.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Unknown
Floor plan of the Elkhorn Ranch house.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Unknown