FDR’s Home - An Exclusive Tour
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Today come join us for a tour of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's home in Hyde Park NY. President Roosevelt was born here and visited many times during his presidency. We were granted a special behind the scenes look of a house rich in history and memories were Kings, Queens, Prime Ministers, and other dignitaries stayed. We hope you will enjoy this part of history as much as we did. A very special thanks to my Step- Mom who is a care taker of this home for showing us around!
Listening to your comments on Queen Elizabeth 11, she ascended to the throne in 1952 when her father King George V1 died but was crowned 2nd June, 1953. Thank you for your video, FDR was one of my favourite U.S. presidents.
Great video! I live near Hyde Park and have visited the FDR Home and Library many times. I have always wanted to see the home's 3rd floor but it is always closed If you ever do another video please include the 3rd floor if possible.
Thank you SO much for this wonderful tour! I visited Springwood (which was the actual name of FDR's estate) 2 or 3 times back in the 1980's and always wished I could see many of the rooms that weren't included on the tour. And now I've seen some of them! How cool is that? When I was there, Sara's 'snuggery' WAS part of the tour. Its the cutest little room with a fireplace and even had an early version TV. But it was SO tiny and cramped! The one room I always wanted to see which you didn't show here was the "smoking room." It has an interesting shape and was added by FDR's father in the late 1880's.
The one thing I notice is that unlike many of the gilded age homes of the day, the Roosevelt's lived so simply. And I've been to the Vanderbilt mansion up the road and some of the Newport Rhode Island estates. The furnishings were not fancy or ornate. Not even fancy or heavy draperies on the windows! Everything is very plain. And you can tell the house was 'well lived in' by the looks of the floors and the furniture. Lots of wear and scratches and the like. During the major addition revision, they remodeled the house to look like the original "river houses" from the around the time of the founding of the country. Yes, its a BIG house, but by no means ostentatious. But both labor and property taxes were cheap back then.
Regarding the narrow wheelchair as mentioned, it was that way so it could fit into the elevator. I read that the elevator was originally a dumbwaiter and was converted after FDR contracted polio. So it was very narrow. I had heard or read somewhere that the elevator was actually installed for FDR's father after his first heart attack which was in 1891 and the doctors told him not to climb stairs. However, since its located in the north wing which was part of the 1915 renovation, that would have been impossible as James Roosevelt died in 1901.
Things have changed since I was there last. That plexiglass over the ramp leading into the living room was not there and you actually walked down the ramp to the ropes at the entrance to the living room. I know due to Covid and all that the National Park Service was cleaning and repairing and the like but when I was there on the daybed at the foot of FDR's bed was Fala's collar and blanket. Perhaps it was moved for the cleaning.
The one little comment I would LIKE to make however, is that I wish you wouldn't have moved the camera around so fast. It made it somewhat hard to see and I had to keep stopping and going back to see details!
Visited there many years ago--in the early 1970s.... Lovely place. One of my favorite Presidents.
That was awesome. I loved the unpolished view of the place. I grew up in a very similar house of 36 rooms in Greenwich, but despite its size, it was a home and not some palatial showcase.
I believe that the statement was made about FDR coming back after 1945 and bringing things with him. He died in office in 1945 and never returned to Springwood. The home was left exactly as it was the last time he visited there.
your my HERo the guy that construes the mystery finds one almost inconsistency like the guy that finds the one misspelled word no one is better than you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for the tour....and the dramamine that I had to take afterwards
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Thanks for the tour
I visited in late 80s I remember seeing the car inside his foyer and his clothes hanging in his closet. I was a kid but I remember how odd it seemed to have ropes and railings blocking off rooms in a house lol, I didn’t understand the history.
It's really crappy of people wanting to steal items from Springwood. It takes some away from the tour not being able to go into rooms because of threat of theft. Ansolutely crappy!
The Queens Room was named after Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth - The Queen Mother. It was not Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. Also, picture above Mrs. Roosevelt was a boy. Enjoyed this tour.
Pleasant to live there.
wonderful tour !!!
It was incredibly abbreviated. I noticed there were cuts in the action and that there was misinformation provided as well ;-(
The print in the upstairs hallway cannot be of Roosevelt's mother, it looks like it's from the late Renaissance.
Be so cool to visit here
Dude! Hold your cell steady as you film. You're all over the place. Ruined the video
Dude chill tf out, he isn’t a professional camera man, he did his best.
Wow, really ...shut up already !!!!!! Hold the camera still for gods sake !!!
great video, except for the rapid movements of the photographer. made me a little motion sick.
I feel sea sick 🤢
you got better shit to do
"When he came back here after being president". How could that be, he died in office? Who is this person giving the tour, and giving wrong information on President Roosevelt ?
Neither of these people seemed to know a whole lot about FDR.
your sisters ass
Actually, FDR didn't live in much of the house after polio paralyzed him from above the waist down in about 1927 (he was still Governor of NY state). Everyone forgets that he wore diapers, had no bladder or bowel control, couldn't walk without 87 pounds of leg braces (and then he lurched along) and was sexually incapacitated (unlike modern movies and fiction lead you to believe). As a younger man, he had loved sailing and was a fine yachtsman in the 9 Meter class and had designed several yachts that were class-winners, mainly erected in Groton, CN. Polio made him suffer badly from cold weather, so Warm Springs, GA. became his "retreat" much of the year after 1942.
In all the books on Roosevelt i have read, I never read that about his physical incapacitation.
Roosevelt contracted what crippled him in 1921 at age 39. He became Ill at Campobello, New Brunswick, where they had a summer “cottage.”
Meanwhile he always had an affair with Lucy Mercer who.was with FDR when he died, Eleanor his city cousin was a lesbian
thank you
So many people were starving back in the 30's but look how he lived.
His mother's family made their fortune in the opium trade in China.
They were already a rich family
they didn't show their wealth like carnegie vandebilts or astors
They were also very openhanded with charity especially after Gma died
One of the reasons they have Chinese pottery from the mother’s side is because the Delanos were part of the opium trade in that part of the world. That’s where a lot of their wealth came from.
Is this near HydePark
It is Hyde Park.
it is Hyde Park
how dare you mention tRumps name in Springwood!!!!!!!!
I totally agree!! That was a sacrilege to the memory of one of our greatest presidents. It should be deleted from the video!
@@J.M.Chadwick6 Well put and said!
Trump best President Americans have ever had.
Quasi dictator. They were both wealthy New Yorkers who betrayed their social class for fame.
@@J.M.Chadwick6 why? what did he do that was so bad? compare to the current brain dead idiot in office. In detail. Dates and times
. ..where is lenininski wall graffiti? trotskystein? komraden engels und marxenthau?
I assume the tour guide received her job thru patronage ( it is New York). It amazes me how the supposedly educated misuse the word like. I'm also amazed the childhood home of the second coming could be open for tours.
Beautiful home, terrible photography
he died in office. who is this filming?
Yes, the guide did not correct that ;-(
This guy sounds so irritating.
hater probably dislikes puppy videos