Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Gramercy Park, Manhattan

Credit: NPS – image by Kevin Daley

Come visit the recreated home of 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. “On October 27, 1858, I was born at No. 28 East Twentieth Street, New York City, in the house in which we lived during the time that my two sisters and my brother and I were small children. It was furnished in the canonical taste of the New York which George William Curtis described in the Potiphar Papers. The black haircloth furniture in the dining-room scratched the bare legs of the children when they sat on it. The middle room was a library, with tables, chairs, and bookcases of gloomy respectability. It was without windows, and so was available only at night. The front room, the parlor, seemed to us children to be a room of much splendor, but was open for general use only on Sunday evening or on rare occasions when there were parties.” — Theodore Roosevelt **Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Tours**: 11am, 12pm, 2pm, & 3pm Tours are limited to 15 people, first come first served.

Come visit the recreated home of 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt.

“On October 27, 1858, I was born at No. 28 East Twentieth Street, New York City, in the house in which we lived during the time that my two sisters and my brother and I were small children. It was furnished in the canonical taste of the New York which George William Curtis described in the Potiphar Papers. The black haircloth furniture in the dining-room scratched the bare legs of the children when they sat on it. The middle room was a library, with tables, chairs, and bookcases of gloomy respectability. It was without windows, and so was available only at night. The front room, the parlor, seemed to us children to be a room of much splendor, but was open for general use only on Sunday evening or on rare occasions when there were parties.”
— Theodore Roosevelt

Friday, Saturday, & Sunday Programming: Visitors are invited to explore the house on a self-guided basis; NPS Rangers will be available to answer questions.

1923; Theodate Pope Riddle

28 East 20th Street, New York, NY 10003