Homes

Photograph of the J. V. Smith house located in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park, with well visible in foreground.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

Unknown

A short narrative about a man named Sterret and how the state of his house reflects his own character.

Collection

Sagamore Hill National Historic Site

Creation Date

Unknown

Photograph of South Unit housing units 102 and 103 being landscaped.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1960

Photograph of South Unit a housing unit 102 being landscaped with employees and residents present.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1960

Photograph of housing units 104, 103, and 102 being landscaped in the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1960

Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary informs F. R. Townsend that his letters to The Outlook have been received. Unfortunately, Roosevelt does not have time to become involved in such matters, so there is no need for Townsend to show him the deed in his possession.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-04-28

President Roosevelt thanks Frank P. McLennan for the pictures. Roosevelt looks forward to seeing Lily and says he is unsure what his bear hunting trip will produce. McLennan’s house, Cedarcrest, looks lovely, and Roosevelt is glad McLennan appreciated the sketch of Pine Knot.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-10-05

President Roosevelt apologizes to Laura Gertrude Roosevelt Punnett that he cannot advise her about homes surrounding Washington D. C. He explains that there are not many positions in government for women.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-05-06

President Roosevelt thanks Louise Holmes Vanderbilt for the thousand dollars she sent, and describes how he spent and donated it.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-02-04

President Roosevelt informs Senator Warner that José De Olivares has sent the Department of State his record showing that he lived in St. Louis, Missouri, for eight years and voted there beginning in 1900.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-06-24

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt approves of Francis John Higginson’s plan to establish a Sailors’ Rest House near the New York Navy Yard and will do what he can to help. Such an establishment will remove “many of the temptation which now beset Jack while on shore.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-05-07

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs former Assistant Secretary of the Navy Soley that he already has a house.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs George Lockhart Rives that he has already rented a house and cannot take his sister’s house.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-04-30

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks his brother-in-law, William S. Cowles, for the letter about his wife, Anna Roosevelt Cowles. Henry Cabot Lodge and Anna Cabot Mills Davis Lodge want her to visit and offer to help her find a house in Washington D. C.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-05-03

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs A. D. Addison that he has already rented a house.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-04-26

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs J. E. Washington that Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt found an unfurnished house and therefore, he does not need Washington’s house.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-04-20

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Bernard P. Mimmack, but he has already rented a house.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-04-21

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks William C. Norris for the list of houses, but he has already rented one.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-04-21

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt thanks Florence Martin Vance for her kindness but he recently signed a lease for a house and has no need to see hers.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-04-23

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs John F. Paret that he found housing.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1897-04-20