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Roosevelt’s deluxe trio of high-ceilinged rooms—now B-17 of Adams House—features an oak fireplace and modern amenities such as central heating and electricity. While many of his peers weathered New England winters by purchasing coal to heat their rooms manually...
Current Adams House Masters Judith Palfrey ’67 and Sean Palfrey ’67—who is the great-grandson of Theodore Roosevelt—have initiated an effort to restore the FDR suite to the condition when Roosevelt inhabited it.
“The reason that there’s no memorial to Roosevelt at the University is because he’s considered to be a traitor to his University and to class interests,” said Michael D. Weishan ’86, a former Adams House...
Until 1960, the specific location of Roosevet’s suite remained unknown as a result of Adams House’s dramatic expansion over a period of 60 years. A letter written by Roosevelt’s former roommate at Harvard, Lathrop Brown, finally identified the room?...
Information from the Harvard archives and original documents of private correspondence have helped to create a historical palette of the conditions of life when Roosevelt resided in Adams House between 1900 and 1904.