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Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site Tours

Springwood, FDR’s lifelong home, served as his primary residence from his birth in 1882 until his death in 1945. The home opened to the public a year later and today visitors can see it as it was during FDR’s final days. 

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• Anyone booked on a group tour arriving with less than ten in their group will be accomodated on the next AVAILABLE general public tour or may not be accommodated at all.
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• Tour times are subject to change.
• A mix of guided and self guided tours are provided, depending on attendance levels and available staffing.  
• Tour guides & bus drivers must be counted in the group in order to enter.
• Maximum of 50 people per group.
• Every person requires a ticket.
• If you arrive late, your tour is forfeited. We may be able to provide access for your group later in the day depending on visitation. 
• Refunds are available, minus the reservation fee, until 24 hours before the tour. No exceptions.

Yes, this tour involves a .25 mile walk to the home and back. 

The tour takes places indoors and outdoors. Please dress according to the weather. Tours operate during high tempertatures, low tempatures, snow and rain.

Access to the home is by tour only. When unexpected high visitation occurs, the guided tours may switch to self guided tours.

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The lifelong home of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, America’s 32nd President. Purchased by Roosevelt’s father in 1867, the home was a large but simple Italianate farmhouse. By 1915, Franklin and his mother, Sara, had completed extensive renovations that included the stucco and fieldstone exterior, the addition of two large wings, and a columned portico. Interior decorations reflect the lifestyle favored by this “old money” family. Inherited by FDR upon his mother’s death in 1941, the house and much of the estate were transferred to the federal government in 1945 at the President’s request. Its interior remains as it was during Roosevelt’s lifetime. The grounds feature flower gardens, outbuildings, and miles of walking trails. The Rose Garden contains the graves of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. 

Amenities: Passport Stamp , Family Friendly, Greenway Trail Access, Restrooms

Nearby Destinations

• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum 0.2 miles
• Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Val-Kill 1.3 miles
• Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site 2.2 miles
• Top Cottage (FDR's Retreat) 2.3 miles
• John Burroughs' Slabsides and Nature Sanctuary 2.5 miles
• Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, Val-Kill
• Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
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Few figures in American public life have been so closely identified with a particular place as President Franklin D. Roosevelt with his home in Hyde Park, New York. FDR was born here in 1882 and remained closely connected to the place for his entire life. The property, located in the historic Hudson Valley, was home and political headquarters, a haven for spiritual renewal, and, after he was stricken with polio, a place for physical rehabilitation. At Hyde Park, he participated in community life, welcomed dignitaries, and conducted the work of the presidency.

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Roosevelt House — the former double townhouse of Franklin, Eleanor and Sara Delano Roosevelt, and now owned by Hunter College — offers visitors a chance to get closer to a family as unique as the city they inhabited, and to explore the private spaces where some of the most iconic public policy of the 20 th  century was shaped.

Tour the New York City home of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt,  their five children, and FDR’s mother Sara Delano Roosevelt.

Hear about Franklin’s rise to the presidency after his struggle with polio, Eleanor’s activism for civil rights and human rights, and Sara’s philanthropy.   Join us in the rooms where Eleanor gained the leadership skills to become America’s ambassador to the world and where Franklin created the New Deal to bring America out of the Great Depression.  Hear the voices of the Roosevelts and their friends and view Roosevelt memorabilia, photographs, and period documents.

Enjoy the Neo-Georgian landmark designed by architect Charles A. Platt  and learn how Hunter College carries on the Roosevelts’ legacies in the 21st century through research, teaching and public programs.

Cost: Free, with a suggested donation of $10 for adults.

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Mike Johnson and the troubled history of recent Republican speakers

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson attends a news conference at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month. Julia Nikhinson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson attends a news conference at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month.

When the House returns from its recess next week, Speaker Mike Johnson is now widely expected to resume his duties without immediately facing a motion to oust him.

Just such a "motion to vacate the chair" was filed against Johnson in March by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. But Greene has yet to make the motion "privileged," which under the rules would necessitate a vote within two days.

Greene had vowed to press her challenge after Johnson announced a strategy to pass $95 billion in aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan earlier this month. About two-thirds of that money was for Ukraine, an issue Greene had called her "red line" for moving against the speaker.

Two colleagues had spoken up to say they would join Greene in such a vote, giving her enough to defeat the speaker if all the chamber's Democrats voted to do the same. That's what the Democrats did when a motion to vacate the chair ousted the last Republican speaker, Kevin McCarthy, last fall. He had been in the job less than nine months.

But this time around several Democrats have indicated they would cross the aisle to support Johnson and frustrate Greene & Co. if it came to a vote. Democratic leaders have indicated they are open to this, and it essentially repeats the strategy that allowed Johnson to pass the Ukraine portion of the aid bill earlier this month.

3rd Republican joins motion to oust Mike Johnson as House speaker

So Greene may have missed her moment. Johnson has gained stature and won bipartisan praise for letting the whole House vote on the aid package. He also got strong support in the Senate , where even an outright majority of Republicans voted for the aid on Tuesday. The package was signed into law by President Biden the following day.

But as Greene has said, the existence of her motion serves as a warning. She could activate a vote at any time so Johnson should know he is skating on thin ice.

And that is true, he should. Even a glance at the history of Republican speakers since World War II would tell him that.

The current state of internal politics among House Republicans is so unsettled that almost anything could happen at almost any time.

As Shakespeare wrote: "Uneasy rests the head that wears a crown," and in recent history that goes double for speakers who are also Republicans.

Johnson is the sixth Republican elevated to the speakership since 1994, the year the party won its first House majority and elected a speaker of its own for the first time in 40 years. The hard truth is that the five who preceded Johnson (McCarthy, Paul Ryan, John Boehner, Dennis Hastert and Newt Gingrich) all saw their time in the office end in relative degrees of defeat or frustration. And to find a Republican speaker who left voluntarily in a moment of victory, moving on to another office, you have to go back to the mid-1920s.

There's been a history of hard landings

The 30-year saga began with Gingrich of Georgia, who was the first member of his party to gain "the big gavel" since the early 1950s and the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Gingrich had been a backbench rabble-rouser since coming to the House in 1978 and built up a cadre of supporters until he won the party's No. 2 power position as minority whip in 1989. He soon eclipsed the party's leader, Robert Michel, who was nearing retirement.

In 1994, two years into the presidency of Democrat Bill Clinton, Gingrich organized a campaign around a 10-item agenda called the "Contract with America." It provided a unified message for the party's nominees, who flipped more than 50 seats and stormed into the majority.

Gingrich managed to restore many of the powers of the speakership but clashed repeatedly with Clinton and even with Republican leaders in the Senate. In 1997, in his second Congress as speaker, he barely survived a largely covert challenge from within his own leadership team. And just shy of his fourth anniversary in the job, he was voted out by the full House Republican conference in December 1998.

House Speaker Newt Gingrich (center), shown here surrounded by House Republicans, holds up a copy of the "Contract With America" during a speech on April 7, 1995 on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington. Richard Ellis/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

House Speaker Newt Gingrich (center), shown here surrounded by House Republicans, holds up a copy of the "Contract With America" during a speech on April 7, 1995 on the steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

Once Gingrich was gone, the line of succession was not clear. The No. 2 Republican at the time did not have the votes, and the No. 3 declined to run. The chairman of the Appropriations Committee was nominated by the party conference but withdrew after a magazine story accused him of marital infidelity.

The mantle fell to Hastert of Illinois, the chief deputy whip. Like Johnson an era later, Hastert was a relatively quiet member of the leadership who enjoyed goodwill generally in the rank and file. Hastert was speaker through the last two Clinton years and first six of the George W. Bush presidency. But he voluntarily resigned after the GOP lost badly in the 2006 midterms, a defeat Bush called "a thumpin' " at the time.

Those eight years actually made Hastert the longest-serving Republican speaker in history. But any luster left after 2006 was lost when he went to prison for bank fraud charges stemming from hush money payments he had made to a former student he admitted to having sexually abused decades earlier.

The next two Republican speakers would be John Boehner, elevated to the job by the GOP recapture of the House in the "Tea Party" election of 2010. Boehner worked hard to fashion budget deals with both a Democratic President Barack Obama and a Democratic Senate. But his efforts alienated some in his own ranks who in 2015 formed an insurgent group known as the House Freedom Caucus. Increasingly exasperated with his untenable predicament, Boehner simply resigned in October of that year.

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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan (right) and then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy walk through the Capitol rotunda on May 17, 2023.

Here again, the line of succession was not as clear as it appeared. The well-respected No. 2 Republican, Eric Cantor of Virginia, had lost his primary in 2014. The No. 3, McCarthy, soon ran aground over remarks in a TV interview and lacked the votes to be speaker. The party settled on Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, who had not sought the gavel but agreed to take it.

Ryan, then just 45, was the youngest speaker in nearly 150 years but had already been party's vice presidential nominee on the 2012 ticket. Once he had Boehner's job, however, he experienced much the same internal strife. Ryan also had a strained relationship with then-President Donald Trump, with whom he had a falling out during the fall 2016 campaign. In April 2018, Ryan said he would not serve another term and left as the party was losing its majority that fall.

More distant memories

Prior to the GOP's 40-year sentence as the minority party, several of its speakers had risen to the top rung largely on their personal popularity among their colleagues. One was Joseph Martin of Massachusetts, who led the party in the House during two brief interludes of majority status after World War II. Both lasted only the minimum two years, the first ending with Democratic Harry S. Truman's surprise White House win in 1948. Martin was back four years later when Eisenhower was first elected president in 1952, but that tour at the top was cut short by his party's sharp losses two years later.

Prior to that, the last Republican speaker had been Nicholas Longworth of Ohio, who died in 1931. Technically, he died as speaker, but his party lost its majority before the next Congress convened and elected a Democrat to the job.

Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House, holds a gun once owned by famous outlaw Jesse James on Jan. 23, 1930. Bettmann Archive hide caption

Nicholas Longworth, speaker of the House, holds a gun once owned by famous outlaw Jesse James on Jan. 23, 1930.

Although Longworth was speaker for only a little over five years, he was well-regarded and symbolic of Republican prosperity in its heydays under Teddy Roosevelt (his father-in-law) and again in the 1920s. When Congress authorized a new House office building in 1931, shortly after Longworth's death, it was named for him and remains so today.

His predecessor, Frederick Gillett of Massachusetts, also had the top job for less than five years. But when he left after the 1924 session, his party was still firmly in control and had just elected President Calvin Coolidge to a full term. Gillett himself moved on to the Senate.

Longevity has simply not been a hallmark of Republican speakers. The list of the 10 speakers who served in the job longest includes just one Republican (and in the ninth slot at that). That speaker was Joseph G. Cannon of Illinois, notorious as the autocratic "Czar Cannon" during three two-year tours as speaker that ended with his party's historic defeat in 1910.

Democrats and durability

Democrats too have had their short speakerships. In 1989 Speaker Jim Wright of Texas resigned under pressure following revelations about a book deal the House Ethics Committee saw as circumventing fundraising rules. Wright had only been in the job a little over two years at the time. Longworth's successor, John "Cactus Jack" Garner of Texas, left the office after just over a year to be Franklin Roosevelt's first vice president.

But as a rule, the Democrats' succession machinery and their regional political balancing long known as the party's "Boston-Austin axis" (or vice versa) helped lend stability.

On that list of the 10 longest-serving speakers, seven are Democrats. Most of them served in that long stretch when their party held the majority for four decades. The most recent Democrat, however, is Nancy Pelosi, still a House member and the House speaker emerita. She comes in at fifth on the longevity roster, having served one day shy of eight years from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.

Correction April 27, 2024

An earlier version of this story misspelled Barack Obama's first name.

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Soviet relations with the United States chilled after World War II as the Soviet Union exerted its influence – or simply imposed its will – on the satellite states of Eastern Europe.  Then came the Communist takeover of China, which the Soviets applauded. The Korean War began in 1950, and the Soviets gave their support to the Communist government in North Korea.  When American nuclear research produced the hydrogen bomb in 1952, the Soviets followed suit in 1953. But the death of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin in March 1953, and the Korean armistice that summer, cooled tensions somewhat, as a new regime took control in the Soviet Union.

Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt planned to tour the Soviet Union in 1954, in order to write about it in her syndicated newspaper column “My Day,” but she had to cancel the trip the day she was scheduled to leave because the Soviet government denied visas to her translator and the others traveling with her.  She was disappointed, and complained that the Soviet government seemed afraid of more interaction with the outside world.

Her opportunity to go there finally came in 1957. She traveled to the Soviet Union with her secretary, Maureen Corr, and her friend and personal physician, Dr. A. David Gurewitsch, who spoke fluent Russian, and his wife Edna.  The group visited Moscow, where they saw the circus and the ballet, and Leningrad, Tashkent, Samarkand, Sochi, and Yalta, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt had met with Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in February 1945.  Mrs. Roosevelt wanted to see everyday life, and she toured schools, churches, mosques, factories, hospitals, and a state farm.  Though she complained that the Soviets tightly controlled what she could see, she nonetheless saw long lines at grocery stores and signs of poverty.  Soviet life and Soviet ideology, she said, were a “mass of contradictions.”

Mrs. Roosevelt spent 2½ hours interviewing Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. In the wake of the Soviet Union’s military suppression of the Hungarian Revolution in late 1956, the discussion was chilly – and indeed Mrs. Roosevelt did not know until the last minute whether Khrushchev would even see her.  The two debated ideology and foreign policy, and Mrs. Roosevelt ultimately told her readers that the American-Soviet relationship required “understanding on our part, respect for [Soviet] achievements, but a firmer belief in the possibilities of our own system.”  After the recording stopped, in response to Khrushchev’s question whether he could tell Soviet newspapers that the conversation had been friendly, Mrs. Roosevelt said that he could say “that we have had a friendly conversation but that we differ.”  Laughing, Khrushchev said, “At least we didn’t shoot each other!”

Lewellyn E. Thompson was one of the most important American diplomats of the 20th Century.  He was the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, serving two separate tours in the administrations of Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson, and then acting as advisor to Richard M. Nixon.  Few Ambassadors faced as many crises as Thompson did in Moscow – the shooting down of a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance aircraft over Russia, the great confrontation between the U.S. and Soviet Union over Berlin and the building of the Berlin Wall, very difficult summits between Soviet Premier Khruschev and Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, the August 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and tensions over the Vietnam War. But there were also steps toward better relations. At Thompson’s suggestion, Nikita Khrushchev became the first Soviet leader to visit the U.S. in 1959. Thompson helped arrange (and was present for) the 1967 summit in the U.S. between President Johnson and Premier Alexei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey, after the Six-Day War in the Middle East exacerbated tensions. Also in 1967, the Soviet Union and U.S. agreed to begin cooperation in space, with the joint Soyuz-Apollo program. The first treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons was signed on July 1, 1968.

Thompson was serving as Ambassador in Moscow when Mrs. Roosevelt visited there, and his wife Jane was with him. Autograph Letter Signed, on stationery of the National Hotel, Moscow, September 9, 1957, passing along a gift to Jane Thompson, and expressing regret that she missed her in Moscow.  “This little package was given me by Ebba Swarz for you.  We are sorry to miss you but hope before Dr. David Gurewitsch & I have to leave on Sept. 28th you may be back.”  Mrs. Swarz was a Swedish author.

After returning to the United States, Mrs. Roosevelt sought to increase travel between the two nations.  She told readers that she hoped “for the sake of our country and our people” that she could “make you see the reasons why our misunderstandings are so great, and some of the things we must do if war and extermination are not to be the answer for both the people of the U.S. and the people of the Soviet Union.”  She returned to the Soviet Union herself in September 1958, and Khrushchev visited her twice in the United States.

This letter comes from the Thompson descendants. A photograph of Mrs. Roosevelt at President Roosevelt’s grave at Hyde Park, New York, accompanied by Premier and Mrs. Khrushchev and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, accompanies the letter.

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Boris Pasternak's museum house

Pasternak’s “important achievement both in contemporary lyrical poetry and in the field of the great Russian epic tradition" was honored with a Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958. For many readers outside Russia, Pasternak is known mainly as the author of the touching historical novel Doctor Zhivago written in 1957. The novel as a whole communicates the haphazard, uncertain and chaotic quality of life caused by the Russian Revolution and the heroic case of quiet humanism demonstrated by a single person.

Pasternak’s translations of Georgian poets favored by Joseph Stalin probably saved his life during the purges of the 1930’s. However, the individualistic Pasternak was not suited to the Soviet artistic climate when art was required to have a clear socialism-inspired agenda and so Russian publishers were unwilling to print Pasternak’s novel. In fact, Doctor Zhivago first appeared in Italy in 1957.

Pasternak won his Nobel Prize the following year. Despite Pasternak politely declining his Nobel Prize quoting: “because of the significance given to this award in the society to which I belong”, the award nevertheless spread his fame well beyond Russia. He ended his life in virtual exile in an artist's community in Peredelkino village. His last poems are devoted to love, to freedom and to reconciliation with God.

Pasternak was rehabilitated posthumously in 1987. In 1988, after being banned for three decades, "Doctor Zhivago" was published in the USSR. In 1989 Pasternak's son accepted his father's Nobel medal in Stockholm.

Pastenak loved his house in Peredelkino, the house and surrounding nature featuring in his poetry. The poet considered the cycle of poems "Peredelkino", which he completed in the spring of 1941, to be his best work. The poet spent the first difficult months of the war in Peredelkino; he completed the novel "Doctor Zhivago" here, wrote the Lara poems and translated Shakespeare and Goethe. It was in this house that he learned he was to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 23rd 1958. He died here on May 30 1960.

The house in Peredelkino only acquired the status of a museum in 1990, thirty years after the poet's death and a century after his birth. The museum has fully preserved the environment and atmosphere of the house where Boris Pasternak lived and worked. The director of the museum is Elena Pasternak, grandaughter of Boris Pasternak.

Pasternak’s grave can be found in Peredelkino cemetery which is situated 20 minutes walk from the poet’s house.

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Home Of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site

Tour Schedule

Tour schedule changes seasonally. For the current tour schedule, visit the park's calendar  page. *Note - Beginning May 19, 2024 the tour schedule will change and does not appear on the Calendar. The Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt will be open 7 days a week between 9 AM and 5 PM with tours throughout the day. Be advised that tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis.  In the summer months and October tours may sell out early.

How to Obtain Tickets

Access to FDR's home is by guided tour only. Tickets are $15. Tickets for children ages 15 and younger are free. Visit  Fees and Passes  for more information on ticket prices, National Park passes, and free entrance days in all National Parks.  Credit cards are the only form of payment we can accept.  The park offers academic waivers of entrance fees for school groups. To learn more about how to qualify and apply for waivers, visit our  Education   webpage.

About the Tour

The tour presents about fifteen rooms on two floors of the house. Occasionally, specific rooms or floors may be unavailable or unfurnished for preservation work. Check with a ranger at the Visitor Center for information about possible preservation impacts.

Preservation Restrictions and Conditions

• Baby strollers, "Gerry" carriers, or infant carriers with handles are not permitted in FDR's home.
• Backpacks and parcels (including purses, briefcases, diaper bags, camera bags) that exceed 11" x 15" in either dimension are not permitted in FDR;s home.
• The public may not carry open containers of food or beverages in FDR's home. Water bottles are permitted, but must remain sealed and contained at all times while inside buildings with museum collections.
• Photography is permitted inside FDR's home, but we ask that you refrain from using your flash. Selfie Sticks and Tripods are not permitted on the public tour.

Only service animals are permitted inside park facilities. You will find general information about pets on our  Pets page , and information about service animals on our  Accessibility page . 

Tickets are $10. Tickets for children ages 15 and younger are free. Visit  Fees and Passes  for more information on ticket prices, National Park passes, and free entrance days in all National Parks.  Credit cards are the only form of payment we can accept. 

The park offers academic waivers of entrance fees for school groups. To learn more about how to qualify and apply for waivers, visit our  Education   webpage.

The first floor of the FDR home is always accessible. The second floor is accessed by a mechancial chair lift. On occasion, the chair lift may be out of service awaiting repair. In these cases, the first floor remains accessible. You may call ahead to confirm the status.

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