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A Few Clouds Putting Teddy's House Back Together Again
TR's Sagamore Hill house has gone through a three year, $10 million rehabilitation. Volunteers have helped return over 10,000 books, various animal mounts, and an enormous amount of furniture to the house. On this day, furniture was being returned and rooms were beginning to take shape as the work continues to put Teddy's house back together again.
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Sagamore Hill is set to reopen to the public in July after going through a major rehabilitation that has taken three years.
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Tom Rogers and Nick Bamundo carefully carry furniture into the house.
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Hundreds of boxes were carefully shipped back and unpacked as TR's house was put back together. The Drawing Room at the front of the house, housed many boxes until they could be returned to their rightful place.
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Nick Bamundo unwraps a 50 lb. marble slab that was packed in a special casing while it was being shipped.
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Susan Sarna explains how every item was thoroughly photographed, cataloged and labeled before being put in storage. Tom Rogers gets ready to carry the item up the stairs into its proper room.
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Ted Jr.'s room
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George Hagerty looks over the photos of TR Jr.'s room before starting on the reconstruction. Every room was photographed from all angles so everything can go back exactly how it was before the rehabilitation started.
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Tom Rogers, left, and George Hagerty, right, unpack items for Ted Jr.'s room
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George Hagerty carries over the base of Ted Jr.'s armoire. It still has original water stains on it that came from either a chamber pot, or his pet toads.
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Reconstructing the room is a very delicate process. Everything must be lined up precisely as it was before. Here George Hagerty and Alfred Zuniga line up the rear of the armoire with the dowel holes on the base.
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George Hagerty put Ted Jr.'s armoire back together using the original hardware.
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The original hardware from the room was carefully removed, cataloged and packaged away so the same hardware could be used when reconstructing the item.
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Jackie Blocklyn shows off Eleanor's many quilts. These quilts are rotated seasonally on all of the beds to avoid deterioration, which would happen if they were to remain always folded in the Linen Room.
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Some of TR's 10,000 books.
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One of the Roosevelt family trunks.
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Alfred Zuniga helps put together a cabinet that was also used to house TR's coins in secret drawers that would slide inside the actual shelf.
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The North Room.
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TR's Sagamore Hill house has gone through a three year, $10 million rehabilitation. Volunteers have helped return over 10,000 books, various animal mounts, and an enormous amount of furniture to the house. On this day, furniture was being returned and rooms were starting to get put back together.
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