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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.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-04-20
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt informs John F. Paret that he found housing.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1897-04-20
Adolf Schwartz asks Theodore Roosevelt for help finding housing for him and his nine children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-08-28
Arthur E. Buchholz thanks Theodore Roosevelt for his reply and is sorry that he does not have reports on housing conditions in Pennsylvania’s smaller communities. He is grateful for Roosevelt’s sympathy for the movement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-07-31
Margaret Knesal requests Theodore Roosevelt’s help in paying for her house. Knesal states if she ever gets enough money to pay Roosevelt back she would along with ten percent interest.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-04
E. V. Cole recently concluded a civic and sanitary inspection of Boomer, West Virginia, and tells Theodore Roosevelt of the lamentable results in the hopes that he can help publicize the situation and that something might be able to be done to better the living conditions of the people there.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-02
William R. Cross informs President Roosevelt that David M. Goodrich recently visited Robert Harry Munro Ferguson at Saranac Lake, and says that Ferguson is doing better and is pleased with the house he has there. (Ferguson had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, and was at Saranac Lake for his health.)
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-12-13
James Bronson Reynolds encloses a letter from S. W. Woodward regarding an event to enlist interest in the President’s Homes Commission. Reynolds asks President Roosevelt to spend “even five or ten minutes” addressing the gathering to assure the audience of official interest in the project.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-10-31
Laura Gertrude Roosevelt Punnett apologizes for troubling President Roosevelt, but she has no one else to whom she can turn. She asks if he knows of a place near Washington, D. C., where she can live quietly and has educational advantages for her two children.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-04
Judge Calvin Page offers “The Wentworth” and “The Rockingham” houses to accommodate President Roosevelt during the peace conference.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-07-20
Photograph showing Sagamore Hill.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1964
The City Council of Richmond, Virginia, issues an ordinance mandating that citizens of different races cannot live on the same street, and setting out penalties for anyone violating the ordinance.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-03-14
Theodore Roosevelt was pleased to receive Martha Bulloch Roosevelt’s letter and is glad that they will be spending the winter together. He will try and be a good son to make up for Elliott Roosevelt’s absence. Roosevelt is marrying Alice Lee in six days.
1880-10-21
Mrs. A. M. Colman informs Vice President Roosevelt of a “first-class residence” available for lease.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901
Maria Longworth Storer offers President Roosevelt the use of her home.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-18
Military Governor of Puerto Rico Davis sends Secretary of War Root information about the effects of a hurricane that struck Puerto Rico. He describes the damage and what relief supplies are needed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1899-08-13