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The President's Study
He intended to assist the librarians and archivists in organizing his papers. However, this study became a working office for FDR whenever he visited Hyde Park, New York during his third and fourth terms as President. It was furnished by FDR with some of his favorite memorabilia and contains books from his personal library and one of the wheelchairs designed by him. He delivered several radio addresses from the study including the July 4th address in 1941; the Labor Day address on September 1, 1941; a Fireside chat #21 on inflation and the high cost of living, September 7, 1942; and the Christmas address on the progress of the war, 1942. FDR last visited the study on March 28, 1945, just before leaving for Warm Springs, Georgia where he died on April 12, 1945. |
The Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library is the only presidential library to have been used by a sitting
president. When the Library was designed in 1939, FDR intended to use this
Study, located on the museum's main floor, when he retired after his second
term.
