Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House
- Architect
- Charles A. Platt
- Year
- 1907
- City
- Manhattan, NY
The Sara Delano Roosevelt Memorial House is a Neo-Georgian townhouse at 47 and 49 East 65th Street, designed by Charles A. Platt in 1907 for Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt. She gave it to her son Franklin and his wife Eleanor as a wedding gift, and the pair used it intermittently until selling it to Hunter College in 1943.
the building
Mirror-image residences. The house originally held two mirror-image residences behind a single facade and shared entrance. Each first floor had its own front reception room with a fireplace, and the rear parlors could be joined together through sliding doors.
the architect
Charles A. Platt designed the house for Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt in 1907.
significance
The house is a National Register of Historic Places contributing property and a New York City Landmark. It closed in 1992 and reopened in 2010 after an $18 million renovation, with Leslie E. Robertson Associates as structural engineers; it is now used by Hunter College as the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.
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