Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site

Eleanor Roosevelt, the wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32^nd president of the USA, had personal issues with her mother-in-law, Sara, who lived at FDR’s home at Hyde Park until her death in 1941, and had issues with her husband, too, for that matter. With her own personal wealth, social prominence, and strong values, she conducted her life out of an estate near Hyde Park, a place called Val-Kill. FDR helped design her cottage there, which was completed in 1923. Other buildings were added, including a factory, used for the production of local crafts and cottage industries. Owned by the Roosevelts until the 1970s, it became the Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site in 1977, and opened to the public in 1984.