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Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site

Tour Springwood, FDR's birthplace and lifelong home, then walk to the Rose Garden where Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are buried.

4097 Albany Post Rd · Hyde Park, NY

About Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site

Springwood was the birthplace, lifelong home and burial place of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president. You see the house on a guided tour, the only way inside, with tickets issued first come, first served at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor Center. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are buried near the sundial in the Rose Garden, along with their Scottish terrier Fala. The estate also holds the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, which Roosevelt dedicated in 1941.

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