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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic SiteTheodore Roosevelt is a past recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
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Lion's Room Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace NHS

Please allow one hour for a tour of the museum and period rooms. Allow thirty minutes for viewing a film. The complete visit should take approximately one and a half hours.

Groups will tour the site in small groups of ten to twenty students ( two groups maximum). Please divide your class before you arrive and assign at least one adult to each group to serve as the group leader.

Before arriving for your visit, please advise the class that the historic objects in the museum and period rooms are quite fragile and therefore cannot be handled or touched.

Restrooms are available at the site. There are no eating facilities at the site and no food or beverages are permitted in the building.

Please call 212-260-1616 to make reservations.

Chatham Gardens  

Did You Know?
Walt Whitman's book "The Wound Dresser" contains a passage about his experience at Chatham during the Battle of Fredericksburg. He mentions a tree which is still standing in the front yard of Chatham.

Last Updated: June 14, 2007 at 09:53 EST