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Roosevelt Point Cottage and Boathouse

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The cottage was built by 1860 to house tenants on the Rosedale estate. Records show that it was home to Rosedale's gardener later on, when Isaac's son John Aspinwall Roosevelt owned the property. He was an avid sportsman, and in the 1880s was a champion
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at ground level on its northern elevation. It has a double-pitched slate roof with an open area in between to allow for ventilation. A metal vent pipe rises from the roof ridge at the south, with additional pipes coming out of the western wall.
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John Roosevelt's crews would warm up between and after races in the cottage's front room. His nephew Franklin spent much time at Rosedale as a boy, and as a young man competed in ice races himself, storing his own yacht in the boathouse.
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at a time when the Hudson just north of Poughkeepsie and the river's salt front, where it freezes over in cold winters, was the center of the sport in the United States.
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The boathouse is a long frame building located to the north. It is sided in board-and-batten as well with a stone
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Inside, the boathouse has been slightly renovated for use as an office, which required some new braces for the
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Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
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The cottage is visible from where River Point Road crosses the tracks. It is a one-and-a-half-story
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The boathouse and cottage are located in a five-acre (2 ha) parcel between the tracks built as the
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to create the suburban-style residential neighborhood to the south of River Point Road. The
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The boathouse was specially built to accommodate his yacht, the 68-foot (21 m)
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is similarly trimmed. The centrally located front entrance, on the eastern
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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
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New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation
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homes in the area. Sails were stored in the loft, no longer extant.
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pent roof, and a wooden hood covers both windows, each flanked by
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National Register of Historic Places in Dutchess County, New York
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Roosevelt's son John, who inherited the estate, was a champion
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from a business to the north are stored around the property.
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Boathouses on the National Register of Historic Places
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Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
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History of the National Register of Historic Places
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Roosevelt Point Cottage and Boathouse is located in New York
Roosevelt Point Cottage and Boathouse is located in the United States
Hyde Park
NY
41°44′23″N 73°56′11″W / 41.73972°N 73.93639°W / 41.73972; -73.93639
Carpenter Gothic
93000851
Hudson River
Hyde Park
New York
United States
estate
Isaac Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
ice yachter
National Register of Historic Places
Hudson River Railroad
CSX
Amtrak
Empire Service
truck trailers
frame
foundation
batten
bays
pitched
gabled
shingled

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