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It’s been exactly four years since we have been to the National Park sites in Hyde Park, #NewYork. On Sunday we revisted the three sites that are located within a few miles of each other. All of the buildings are currently closed, but the grounds are open. The third I am featuring is Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site. The property is also known as Val-Kill and is about two miles east of Springwood, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's home. This property was built so that Eleanor could develop some of her ideas for work with winter jobs for rural workers and women. She liked being there more than at the "big house," which was still run by FDR's mother, Sara. This site is drastically different from FDR's mansion - it is very simple and modest, as opposed to lavish. Stone Cottage was built between 1924 and 1926 and is the only residence Eleanor personally owned and the property was the site of Val-Kill Industries. Stone Cottage would also be Eleanor's home after the death of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1945. In 1936, Eleanor remodeled the Val-Kill factory on the site into a 20-room house (now called Val-Kill Cottage) with an apartment for her personal secretary, an office, living room, and dining room for entertaining guests. After Eleanor's death in 1962, the Val-Kill Cottage was converted into rental units and later sold to developers. It was saved through a public campaign and on May 26, 1977 became a unit of the @NationalParkService. The site opened to the public in 1984. #ny #nyhistory #SpreadTheHistory #historygirl #FindYourPark #travelblog #travelblogger #blog #blogger #explore #exploreny #history #nationalparkservice #goparks #nps #nps104 #nationalparkgeek #explore #nationalpark #valkill #eleanorroosevelt #natinalhistoricsite #iloveny #hydepark #hydeparkny #hudsonrivervalley #hudsonrivervalleynha #smallparksaturday #stonecottage (at Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEVRaWCj4uq/?igshid=d4qb80xkm3rb

Eleanor Roosevelt's project bag. The only way I could have geeked out more would be if there had been a beer stein on the table and running shoes next to the chair. . #knittting #eleanorroosevelt #valkill #findyourpark #eleanorrooseveltnhs https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvp9WqRD4ck/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17tbd38brscts

Join @bookmarksnc downtown and Emily Herring Wilson (MA '62) on Oct. 11 as they celebrate the anniversary of Eleanor Roosevelt's birthday with the launch of Wilson's new book, "The Three Graces of Val-Kill: Eleanor Roosevelt, Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook in the Place They Made Their Own." A book-signing will follow the author talk, which begins at 6 p.m. The "three graces," as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called them, were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family and for New York's progressive women. #eleanorroosevelt #fdr #threegraces #books #authors #wfu #wakeforest #valkill (at Wake Forest Magazine)