Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill

The Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill (ERVK) is a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to Eleanor Roosevelt's belief that people can enhance the quality of their lives through purposeful action based on sensitive discourse among people of diverse perspectives focusing on the varied needs of society. ERVK operates out of Stone Cottage, which is the original Dutch fieldstone cottage constructed at Val-Kill for Eleanor Roosevelt by her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt.
   
Teaching Eleanor Roosevelt has been developed for the National Park Service by The Eleanor Roosevelt and Human Rights Project which is the first phase of The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers, a documentary history of Eleanor Roosevelt's political writings and radio and television appearances. The Project is sponsored by The George Washington University, The New York Times Foundation, and a wide variety of private donors.
   



http://www.cr.nps.gov/museum
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 This on-line exhibit provides a brief biography of Mrs. Roosevelt accompanying images of selected artifacts in the collections of the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, and historic photographs of Mrs. Roosevelt and her world .It is one of several "virtual exhibits" in the American Visionaries series produced by the NPS Museum Management Program.
   
   
Save Americas Treasures is assisting the National Park Service with a public awareness campaign and fundraising efforts to preserve Eleanor Roosevelt's Hyde Park home, Val-Kill, and share her legacy through new interpretive exhibits and media at the site.
   
Arthurdale Heritage, Inc.
A non profit corporation, founded in 1985, Arthurdale Heritage, Inc. is dedicated to preserving the history of, the First New Deal Community in the United States: Arthurdale, West Virginia
 
   
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
 The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum.   In 1939 President Roosevelt began construction of his Presidential Library, establishing a precedent each succeeding president has followed. He envisioned the Library as a repository for his official papers as well as for his various collections, and the mementos and gifts he received. Today, the records of FDR's presidency are available to researchers and extensive museum exhibits explore the life and political career of one of the 20th century's greatest leaders. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library is adjacent to the Roosevelt home and is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration.
   
Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
 The mission of the Franklin & Eleanor Roosevelt Institute is to inform new generations of the ideals and achievements of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and to inspire the application of their spirit of optimism and innovation to the solution of current problems. The Roosevelt Institute believes that the spirit of pragmatic idealism that these two great leaders brought to the problems of their time can continue to inspire the struggle for peace and social justice everywhere in the world.
   
The Roosevelt estate, Springwood is preserved as the life-long home and memorial gravesite of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the only four-term American President and one of the pivotal figures of the 20th Century. Deeded to the Nation upon his death, the estate's cultural landscape and viewshed so influenced President Roosevelt that it is considered to be as important as the preserved structures and collections at the site
   
The Frederick W. Vanderbilt estate, Hyde Park, symbolized the growing economic, social, and political clout of America in the years after the Civil War, a time when financiers and industrialists lived in a style which consciously emulated European pomp. The estate is also one of the earliest horticultural endeavors in the United Sates and remains a significant example of the 19th Century landscape design in the picturesque style.
   
Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites
4097 Albany Post Road
Hyde Park, NY 12538
Updated: 10-01-02
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