Sagamore Hill (house)
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Sagamore Hill National Historic Site
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Sagamore Hill
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| Location | Cove Neck, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°53′8″N 73°29′51″W / 40.88556°N 73.49750°WCoordinates: 40°53′8″N 73°29′51″W / 40.88556°N 73.49750°W |
| Area | 83.02 acres (33.60 ha) |
| Built | 1884 |
| Architect | Lamb & Rich; C. Grant LaForge |
| Architectural style | Queen Anne |
| Visitation | 38,009 (2005) |
| Website | Sagamore Hill National Historic Site |
| NRHP reference # | 66000096 |
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| Added to NRHP | October 15, 1966 |
| Designated NHS | July 25, 1962 |
Sagamore Hill was the home of the 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt, from 1885 until his death in 1919. It is located in the Incorporated Village of Cove Neck, New York, near Oyster Bay in Nassau County on the North Shore of Long Island, 25 miles (40 km) east of Manhattan. It is now the Sagamore Hill National Historic Site, which includes the Theodore Roosevelt Museum in a later building on the grounds.
Although he was a native of New York City, Theodore Roosevelt spent many summers of his youth on extended vacations with his family in the Oyster Bay area. In 1880, by then a young adult of 22, Roosevelt purchased 155 acres (63 ha) of land for $30,000 (equal to about $700,000 today) on Cove Neck, a small peninsula roughly 2 miles (3.2 km) northeast of the hamlet of Oyster Bay. In 1881, his uncle James A. Roosevelt had designed his estate home several hundred feet west of the Sagamore Hill property. In 1884 Theodore Roosevelt hired the New York architectural firm Lamb & Rich to design a shingle-style, Queen Anne home for the property. The twenty-two room home was completed by John A. Wood and Son, of Lawrence, Long Island in 1886 for $16,975 (equal to $462,349 today), and Roosevelt moved into the house in 1887. Roosevelt originally planned to name the house "Leeholm" after his wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt. However, she died in 1884 and Roosevelt remarried in 1886, so he decided to change the name to "Sagamore Hill". Sagamore is the Algonquin word for chieftain, the head of the tribe.
In 1905 Roosevelt decided to expand the house, adding the largest room, called the "North Room" (40 by 30 feet (12.2 by 9.1 m)), for $19,000 (equal to $517,504 today). The North Room is furnished with trophies from the former president's hunts and gifts from foreign dignitaries, alongside pieces of art and books from the Roosevelts' collection. The home now has twenty-three rooms, including a water closet with a porcelain tub, a luxury at the time of its construction.
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