The first building, the Stone Cottage was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors, nancy cook and marion dickerman. It was built on the eastern end of the roosevelt property at the time, land that fdr had trychased in 1911 to do fores experiment on. By the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life. She really needed her own space to bring friends and associates, have a place where she could talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr realized the big house really didnt serve Eleanor Roosevelt purposes well, because that was her motherinlaws house and choose to save it for to say that for 40 years she , was just a visitor there. It was important for her to have her own space where she could really do things that she was interested in and not have to worry about whether or not her motherinlaw had to give her permission to do this or that in her motherinlaws home. This was her little space. The building we are i
The first building, the Stone Cottage was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors, nancy cook and marion dickerman. It was built on the eastern end of the roosevelt property at the time, land that fdr had trychased in 1911 to do fores experiment on. By the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life. She really needed her own space to bring friends and associates, have a place where she could talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr realized the big house really didnt serve Eleanor Roosevelt purposes well, because that was her motherinlaws house and choose to save it for to say that for 40 years she , was just a visitor there. It was important for her to have her own space where she could really do things that she was interested in and not have to worry about whether or not her motherinlaw had to give her permission to do this or that in her motherinlaws home. This was her little space. The building we are i
Experiment on. By the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life. She really needed her own space to bring friends and associates, have a place where she could talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr realized the big house really didnt serve Eleanor Roosevelt purposes well, because that was her motherinlaws house and choose to save it for to say that for 40 years, she was just a visitor there. It was important for her to have her own space where she could really do things that she was interested in and not have to worry about whether or not her motherinlaw had to give her permission to do this or that in her motherinlaws home. This was her little space. The building we are in right now, which later became Eleanor Roosevelt home was really initially built to be a furniture factory that she started because she was very concerned about young people in her community of hyde park or farmers who can make a decent living through farming. She thought by teaching them a t
Balko encompasses two major buildings, the first building, the Stone Cottage was built in 1925 to initially serve as a retreat for Eleanor Roosevelt and her two political mentors, nancy cook and marion dickerman. It was built on the eastern end of the roosevelt property at the time, land that fdr had purchased in 1911 to do forestry experiment on. By the early 1920s, she was getting very active in political life. She really needed her own space to bring friends and associates, have a place where she could talk politics and plan political strategy. Fdr realized the big house really didnt serve Eleanor Roosevelt purposes well, because that was her motherinlaws house and choose to save it for to say that for 40 years, she was just a visitor there. It was important for her to have her own space where she could really do things that she was interested in and not have to worry about whether or not her motherinlaw had to give her permission to do this or that in her motherinlaws home. This wa
I guess everyone didnt get the dressup memo. Have a lot of events going on. I could not not be here because we are so thrilled to welcome blanche. For those of you i havent have a chance to say hello to i have extraordinary privilege of being the president of Hunter College could not be more fitting than they were here tonight to celebrate this book and this author in the subject this house. That is so true. As all of you know so well we are gathered this evening in the new york city home to Eleanor Roosevelts are shared with her husband and i think its fair to say her motherinlaw also they departed for washington in 1933 to a certain glorious burden of life in the white house. The book were viewing here tonight covers though wars and decades after when she became not just the first lady of the land with the first lady of the world attic its fair to say that her activism and her sense of justice in her belief in womens rights in her quest for equal opportunity for all commitments that