Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt’s birthplace in Manhattan’s Flatiron District is a recreated nineteenth-century brownstone on the site where the future twenty-sixth president was born in 1858 and spent his early childhood. The original house, built in 1848 and owned by the Roosevelt family from 1854, was demolished in 1916 after the family had long since moved away. Following Roosevelt’s death, the house was rebuilt and rededicated in 1923, with architect Theodate Pope Riddle designing the reconstruction and adjoining museum. Refurnished with help from Roosevelt’s widow and sisters and presented as it appeared in 1865, the site preserves the setting of his earliest years and serves as a museum of his life and legacy.

New York, New York · United States