Teddy roosevelt house oyster bay
Teddy roosevelt house oyster bay
Teddy roosevelt house long island ny.
Sagamore Hill
Estate in Cove Neck, New York
For the mountain summit in Massachusetts, see Sagamore Hill (Massachusetts).
United States historic place
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 Cove Neck, New York, near Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island,[2] 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.
History
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, 22-year-old Roosevelt purchased 155 acres (63 ha) of land for $30,000 (equal to $947,172 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 an estate home built severa