The house is finally finished and ready for the tours. Several children from Theodore Roosevelt Elementary arrived for a tour before the house was officially opened, the first tour given in three years
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Jessica Stanziale, left, walks hand in hand with Alisa Kelly, Patrick Cochran, Sofia Stanziale and Brooke Antico on their way up to Teddy's house.
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Hanging out on the porch at Sagamore Hill is always fun.
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The children are the first visitors to enter the house in over three years.
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The students were fascinated by Teddy's Library during their tour.
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An interpreter answered the students' many questions about Roosevelt's Library.
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May 2013. The long restoration process has begun. TR's Library has been emptied and boarded up.
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March 2015. Sue Sarna, curator of Sagamore Hill and project manager, speaks with Craig Oleszewski, Sr. Exhibit Specialist for National Parks Svc. N.E. Region in TR's Library during the restoration. Items are being unpacked and put back where they belong.
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April 15, 2015. Animal mounts have been hung and large objects are starting to be moved back into the Library.
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May 13, 2015. The Library is almost complete. All the large furniture and animal hides have been moved into the room. Only a few small objects are missing.
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June 2015. TR's Library is finally complete. Animal hides, the "Ting Tang" clock, hundreds of books and a large portrait of TR's father (that he never moved) made the him feel comfortable while working away at his desk
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April 2015. The Drawing Room is full of boxes and crates that hold objects that will be unpacked and placed back in the rooms throughout the house.
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May 5, 2015. In the Drawing Room, George Hagerty cuts open one of the custom crafted shipping containers built to protect the bronze it holds inside.
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May 5, 2015. The rugs are the first items to be moved into the rooms, followed by the larger furniture.
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May 5, 2015. Edith's favorite room, the Drawing Room, is nearly complete.
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May 5, 2015. Even though the bear hide has been added to the Drawing Room, there are still other items, like a few hides and smaller objects that need to be added.
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May 2015. The giant polar bear hide has been returned to the Drawing Room.
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April 4, 2015. The Dining Room is full of boxes that were recently shipped back from Massachusettes. George Hagerty speaks about the special containers that were used which he had to build to ship some of the more fragile items.
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May 5, 2015. The Dining Room is beginning to take shape.
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May 13, 2015. Most of the large furniture from the Dining Room has been unpacked.
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June 2015. The Dining Room includes many of the smaller items now.
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June 2015. The Dining Room includes the china that the Roosevelt's used when they lived in the White House.
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One student from Theodore Roosevelt Elementary asked why there weren't enough chairs around the dining room table for all of the children.
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May 2013. The Kitchen was emptied of all objects and boarded up. Work will begin shortly to rehabilitate the room.
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June 2015. Mrs. Roosevelt didn't like for TR to come into the Kitchen and locked the door so he couldn't get in.
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June 2015. The stove had two different chimneys, one to burn wood and the other to burn coal. Edith replaced the original stove in 1920 with the same stove that had been in the house before TR died in 1919.
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The students visit the Kitchen during their tour.
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Garbriella Vergara points at one of the objects across the Kitchen which caught her and the boys, Jefferson Gomez and Jaron Schatner's attention
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The children listened intently to Brendan Casey, a guide since 1994, as he shared information on the buffalo robe that was painted by Indians given to TR when he was out west. The robe depicts the Battle of Little Bighorn.
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May 2013. The North Room, fondly referred to as the Trophy Room, has been emptied of all contents, and anything that could not be moved was protected. The bison and elk were too big to safely move so they were encased in protective wood coverings.
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March of 2015. Workers and volunteers continued to put items back in the North Room. Boxes of books need to be replaced in bookcases exactly where they had been before the restoration.
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March 2015. Several of the books were returned to a bookcase that Roosevelt had made to mimic a bookcase he loved while in the White House.
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April 2015. Now that the books have been returned to the North Room the return of the furniture will soon follow.
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May 5, 2015. Most of the big furniture has been moved into the North Room. The smaller objects and other hides will be moved in after the animal mounts are rehabilitated.
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March 30, 2015. Conservator Ron Harvey evaluating the condition of the two Bison/ American Buffalo heads on either side of the hearth in the North Room. This buffalo's eye had fallen out and Ron is working to replace it.
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May 13, 2015. More animal hides have been moved into the room and some of the smaller objects too. The giant elephant tusks are an iconic piece and are generally the first thing a visitor notices as they walk toward the room.
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The end product is a beautifully restored room, a true shrine to Teddy Roosevelt and his family.
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Utilizing a student's hat as a prop, interpreter Brendan Casey told Robert Sellers, Aryan Sharma and James Ortiz Zavala that TR used to keep spare eyeglasses hidden in his hat because he often lost his glasses while hunting.
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