Beginning as the Georgia Warm Springs Foundation, this hospital for polio patients was founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1927. Today, the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation is an internationally recognized comprehensive rehabilitation facility serving people with many different types of disabilities. Roosevelt loved Warm Springs, and in 1932 he built there the only home he ever owned, a modest six-room cottage called the Little White House, which became a relaxing haven during his regular visits. There he developed many New Deal policies that affected the nation, and there he died on April 12, 1945, while posing for the Unfinished Portrait. Warm Springs gained world attention through Roosevelt's search for a cure for the polio that struck him in 1921, and the town changed little over the years since his visits. The area also included public picnic grounds, a public pool entrance, the Warm Springs Service Station, and the Pantry Shelf for sandwich and picnic supplies, reflecting what Roosevelt called the Spirit of Warm Springs. In 1928, the Edsel Ford Pavilion was completed, and its pool, known as the Winter Pool, allowed therapy to be offered year-round. Dedicated on Thanksgiving Day that year, it stood near the main entrance to the public pool. The famous T-shaped pool, where Roosevelt exercised before patients' pools were built and whose waters he found relaxing to his paralyzed muscles, was closed in 1945 after his death.