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7. Boyhood Room
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This was FDR’s bedroom as a young man. As Eleanor recalled “he hung many of his school and college diplomas and pictures in there. As a member of an upper class family, Franklin had access to some of the best education available. As a young boy, he was educated at home by a governess. He later attended the Groton School in Massachusetts. He attended Harvard, where he was editor of the school’s newspaper, the Crimson. After Harvard, he studied law at Columbia University. The stairs to the left of the doorway lead to the third floor children’s bedrooms, the nursery, playroom, and bedrooms for nurses and nannies. Continuing to your right down the second floor hall, several bedrooms line both sides. These rooms were occupied by a range of family associates, and important guests, from FDR’s secretaries Missy LeHand and Grace Tully, to more famous visitors, like Winston Churchill.
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Boyhood Room
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