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of the United States in 1932, at age 50. He is the only
US President elected four times: he was 80 days into his
fourth term in 1945 when he died in Warm Springs at the
age of 63. He is the first (and only) President to design a
golf course—nine holes, Campobello, New Brunswick—
and designed the very first “Presidential Library”.
FDR bought the land that is now known as Val-Kill in
1911 as a “forestry project” and in 1925 built Eleanor
and two friends, Nancy Cook and Marian Dickerman, a
stone cottage. In 1976/77 the then-owners decided to
sell the property, and a local Hyde Park environmental
group “lobbied Congress” to save it. It was opened to the
public in 1984 on what would have been Eleanor’s 100th
birthday. It is the only US government property dedicated
to a First Lady.
FDR purchased the Top Cottage property in 1935/36,
the cottage was completed in 1939, and used by FDR
until 1945. Open Space Institute bought it in 1996 and it
was opened by the National Park Service in 2001. The
famous “hot dog picnic” with Queen Elizabeth, the Queen
Mother, and King George VI took place at Top Cottage.
Eleanore and FDR in bronze.
Vanderbilt Mansion.
The Hyde Park Vanderbilts
.
In 1624 America’s first Vanderbilt—Jan Aertson van der Bilt—immigrated from Holland as an
indentured servant. In the 1900’s, the Vanderbilts owned 16 (maybe 22) railroads—including the New