 Sara Delano Roosevelt
and young Franklin, 1887 |
 fter James Roosevelt died in 1900, Sara and
Franklin, then a freshman at Harvard, continued to live in the
house. When he married distant cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
in 1905, the young couple moved in with Sara, in whose name the
house remained until her death in 1941. Franklin's work and political
career required that the family live elsewhere for long periods,
but they returned to Springwood whenever possible. During his
years as Governor of New York and President, Springwood was the
nucleus of his life and career.
Throughout his presidency he returned some 200 times for temporary
respite from Washington and for the nourishment Springwood gave
him. By 1944, ill and weary from the intensity of the war effort,
there was a note of finality when he said: "All that
is within me cries out to go back to my home on the Hudson River."
 
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