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"Fond as I am of the
White House,"
President Theodore Rooseelt
once said, "there isn't any place in the world like homelike
Sagamore Hill." Rooseelt's loe of his Long Island home was boundless, and the house remains a telling reflection of its larger than life owner.
Built for comfort rather than style, the three-story gabled house stands on more than 60 acres (25 hectares), with sweeping porches overlooking Oyster Bay and Long Island Sound. Rooseelt built the house for his first wife, Alice, but she died in 1884 while the house was in construction. After
Rooseelt
married
Edith Carow
in 1886,
Sagamore Hill
became home for them and their family, which eventually included six children. Sagamore Hill was the summer White House during Rooseelt's presidency (19011909), and he
died there in 1919. It has beven maintained by the National Park Serice since 1964.
Except for Edith Rooseelt's drawing room,
Sagamore Hill's 22 rooms are all Teddy. They are filled with heay furniture, wood paneling, hunting trophies, and the souenirs of Rooseelt's adentures. In the huge North Room are Rooseelt's special treasures his
Rough Riders
sword and hat from the
Spanish-American War, his books, and a set of elephant tusks.
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