Sagamore Hill, Home of Theodore Roosevelt

Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY

This home is an icon in American Culture because it was the home of Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Edith. He purchased it when he married his first wife Alice, but after her death left it for awhile during his grief. He then made it a working farm and actually worked on the farm himself. When he became president it became the "summer white house" & was a place visited by dignitaries from around the world. Roosevelt and Edith both died in the house, and it stands today as a monument to a president who began the national park service, fought in the Spanish American War and helped build the Panama Canal. The house itself was a true home, and both TR and Edith are buried just down the road from it.
It was also the home of a Girl Scout camp in 1976 that I attended.

Lisa