North Room, Sagamore Hill
Photograph of Sagamore Hill with a description of the North Room.
Collection
Creation Date
Unknown
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Presidents--Homes and haunts
Letter from Ray H. Mattison to Hermann Hagedorn
Historian Ray H. Mattison requests information about the location of the Elkhorn Ranch site from Hermann Hagedorn.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1949-11-03
Letter from Ray H. Mattison to Henry J. Walz
Historian Ray H. Mattison requests a meeting with Henry J. Walz in Medora, North Dakota, concerning the Elkhorn Ranch.
Collection
Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Creation Date
1949-08-22
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to William Morton Fullerton
President Roosevelt invites William Morton Fullerton to stay with him at Oyster Bay when he is in New York.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1914-11-24
Letter from President Roosevelt to W. N. Mitchell
President Roosevelt is touched and pleased by the proposition that his mother’s childhood home, Bulloch Hall, in Roswell, Georgia, will be reproduced by the Georgia Commission to the Jamestown Exposition, and he warmly thanks the president of the commission, W. N. Mitchell.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-10-16
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt
President Roosevelt commends his daughter Ethel Roosevelt on her letter to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, saying that it told them “just what we wanted to know.” He is glad that Archibald B. Roosevelt had a nice visit with William Emlen Roosevelt and Christine Griffin Kean Roosevelt. Roosevelt is glad to hear Ethel’s opinion about the changes made to Sagamore Hill, and looks forward to seeing them himself. Edith is feeling better, but Roosevelt’s ankle is not yet fully recovered.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-06-11
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Ethel Roosevelt
President Roosevelt was glad to get a letter from his daughter, Ethel Roosevelt, and is pleased that she likes her new room at Sagamore Hill. Roosevelt looks forward to getting there himself soon. He was interested in reading what Ethel wrote about several horses, but comments that he himself has not been able to do much riding or get other exercise because of an injured ankle. He has more stories to tell Ethel when he sees her in person.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-06-13
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Leo P. Glasel
Theodore Roosevelt gives Leo Glasel his congratulations for having the meeting of his club in the house where Roosevelt was born.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1904-10-20
Letter from Ralph Peters to William Loeb
Ralph Peters, President of the Long Island Rail Road Company, received the letter from President Roosevelt’s secretary, William Loeb, about the undelivered shipment. Peters will give his immediate attention to the matter.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-11-20
Letter from Frederic Gregory Mather to William Loeb
Frederic Gregory Mather, treasurer of the American Canoe Association, writes to William Loeb regarding President Roosevelt’s honorary membership acceptance to the Association. Mather also mentions that he can see Roosevelt’s Oyster Bay home from his house and that he enjoyed their belated Fourth of July fireworks.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-17
Letter from George Edward Graham to Theodore Roosevelt
George Edward Graham writes to President Roosevelt regarding the Roosevelt Home Club and the purchase of the Roosevelt homestead. The Club’s aim is to restore the home to the condition it was in when Roosevelt was born. Graham lists the names of individuals who are contributing to the objectives and acknowledges Roosevelt’s stance on the issue.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-13
Letter from Peyton Skipwith Coles to Theodore Roosevelt
In the newspaper, Peyton S. Coles has been credited with helping President Roosevelt hunt. However, Coles had missed Roosevelt on the morning of the hunt and tried to catch up. Coles then heard that Roosevelt went to Pine Knot, Roosevelt’s cabin. Coles went home, but he apologizes for the incident and claims that he would have had a better spot for hunting turkeys.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1906-01-03
Letter from Williams & Whitman, Inc. to Theodore Roosevelt
Williams & Whitman, Inc. writes to President Roosevelt to tell him they have received payment for work done at Sagamore Hill and encloses a receipt.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-09-18
Letter from Roger Butler Williams to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
Roger Butler Williams awaits Edith Roosevelt’s approval to visit Oyster Bay and test the water system.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-08-14
Letter from Otto von Gottberg to Benjamin F. Barnes
Otto von Gottberg asks whether members of the press will be able to attend any of the ceremonies to be held at Oyster Bay before the meeting of the peace delegates at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Gottberg asks to be allowed to tour the grounds of President Roosevelt’s home, as the German people would be interested to read a detailed account of them.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-07-14
Letter from Albert Shaw to Theodore Roosevelt
Albert Shaw congratulates President Roosevelt on Elihu Root accepting the appointment as Secretary of State. Shaw also informs the president that Henry Beach Needham and a photographer will be coming to Sagamore Hill at Oyster Bay in order to write an article about Roosevelt at home.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-07-07
Letter from Joseph Wilmer to Theodore Roosevelt
Joseph Wilmer, who sold the Roosevelt family the Pine Knot cottage near his Virginia ranch in 1905, thanks President Roosevelt for the gift of a whip. Wilmer tells Roosevelt that a building Roosevelt had suggested for the grounds of the ranch has already been planned and will be suitably located.
Collection
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
Creation Date
1905-05-20
North Shore Summer Home of President Taft, Beverly, Mass.
Postcard showing an angled view of the summer home of President Taft in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Comments and Context
In Charles C. Myers’s own words, “The Presidents [sic] summer home at closer view.”
Collection
Rooms in Sagamore Hill, home of President Theodore Roosevelt, in Cove Neck, Long Island, NY
Film of the interior of Sagamore Hill. Panning shots of the Front Hall, North Room, and Library, with closeups of some trophies.
Collection
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
Creation Date
1955
Shots of interior of Sagamore Hill, home of President Theodore Roosevelt, in Cove Neck, Long Island, NY
Film of the interior of Sagamore Hill. Panning shots of Father’s Dressing Room and the Drawing Room, as well as the Front Hall and North Room. Closeups highlight certain trophies.
Collection
Sherman Grinberg Film Collection
Creation Date
1955