Roosevelt Home

The Roosevelt home was the "Summer White House" during TR's presidency.

Audrey Tiernan

Quick Facts

Location:

Oyster Bay, NY

Significance:

Theodore Roosevelt's home

OPEN TO PUBLIC:

No

Sagamore Hill was the home of Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, from 1885 until his death in 1919. The home served as the “Summer White House” during Roosevelt’s presidency. The Queen Anne or shingle style house has 23 rooms and sits atop the highest point on Cove Neck, affording the family a view of Oyster Bay harbor to the west (which today is blocked by trees across the road). Roosevelt was most concerned with comfort and function rather than style or grandeur when planning the house and wanted a large "piazza" or porch facing the water, a library and parlor, plenty of bedrooms for family and guests, and large fireplaces. The rooms of the home are filled with mementos of Roosevelt’s many hunting trips, gifts from around the world, and reminders of his major accomplishments as a soldier and statesman.

The Roosevelt home is accessible by guided tour only. See the Fees and Passes page for more information.