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Table of Content History of Home of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site Top National Park Tips Bedrooms of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt Living room and library Portraits in the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt How to beat the crowds in the Home of Franklin D Roosevelt National Historic Site? The FDR Presidential Library and Museum is located next to the home site. When the Roosevelts originally bought this property, the vegetable garden occupied a small bed in the present-day rose garden and gravesite. Although they were only a family of three, the garden expanded continuously throughout their time at Springwood, even after FDR’s departure for school and James Roosevelt’s death in 1900. Few figures in American public life have been so closely identified with a particular place as President Franklin D. Roosevelt with his home in Hyde Park, New York. FDR was born here in 1882 and remained closely connected to the place for his entire life. The property, located in the historic H...