How Do You Tour Theodore Roosevelts Sagamore Hill?
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has read about Teddy Roosevelt and his life and personality that his home, “Sagamore Hill,” is equal parts country manor, hunting lodge and boys clubhouse. Roosevelt and his second wife, Edith Carow, raised six children in this house, which served as the Summer White House during Roosevelt’s presidency. Roosevelt died in 1919 and Edith in 1948. The house was opened to the public in 1953. Walk around the first floor. A large porch or “piazza” runs along the west and part of the north and south sides of the house; it was a breezy place to sit and watch the boats on Long Island Sound. Visitors enter through the porte-cochere on the south side of the house. The entrance hall, stuffed as it is with animal trophies, is a good indicator of what the rest of the house is like. To the right of the hall is the library and office where Roosevelt held pre-summit meetings for the peace conference he brokered that formally ended the Russo-Japanese War. To t
