- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Little White House
- Date of Original:
- 1932/2022
- Subject:
- Dwellings--Georgia--Warm Springs
Second homes--Georgia--Warm Springs
Presidents--Dwellings--Georgia--Warm Springs
Presidents--United States
Buildings--Georgia--Warm Springs
Historic buildings--Georgia--Warm Springs
Museums--Georgia--Warm Springs
Little White House (Warm Springs, Ga.)
Warm Springs (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945--Homes and haunts
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Meriwether County, Warm Springs, 32.89041, -84.68104
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In 1932, the same year in which he was elected president of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt built a home in Warm Springs that came to be known as the Little White House. The home was opened to the public in 1948, three years after Roosevelt's death there.
Photograph showing the front of Little White House in Warm Springs, Georgia. From 1924 to 1945 President Franklin D. Roosevelt maintained a residence in Warm Springs known as Little White House. Since 1948 the house has been open to the public. In the early years, he spent his days exercising at the pools at the Warm Springs resort as he tried to rebuild his leg muscles from the debilitating effects of polio. After being elected as the thirty-second president of the United States in 1932, he used Little White House as a retreat from the rigors of leading a nation through the Great Depression. He died there in 1945. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/meriwether-county/m-6478/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Georgia Archives. If Georgia Archives material will be used in a publication or on the Internet, permission to publish must be requested from the Georgia Archives in writing
Georgia Archives - Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/meriwether-county
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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