Roosevelt Home and Library

We were visiting Fishkill, NY and we were told that Hyde Park was about ½ hour away. Our flight at JFK wasn’t until 6:00, so we decided to take a detour to see the home and library/​museum of FDR, the only President to have served 4 terms in office.
There’s different packages you can get, but you can only take a guided tour of the inside of the house. The museum can be done independently, and at your own leisure.
The tour of the house took about an hour, and then you were allowed to roam the grounds. FDR and Eleanor are buried to the right of the house (or left of the museum). Don’t miss it as you walk back to the museum.
If you’re pressed for time, I would say take the tour, and skip the museum for next time. We took the 12:30 tour, and saw about 40% of the museum. We left at 2:30 and arrived at JFK with time to top off our tank, and take the AirTrain to Terminal 5.

Mill street loft portfolio day was held here. Didn’t get a chance to see too much. But it look nice enough. A very nice venue for a portoflio day event.

This part of hyde park is so pretty. THe landscape on the grounds is worth a trip in itself. Plus you really get to learn about FDR personally and politically, not to mention is amazing wife.
There is really a sense of history here since he actually grew up here and came her throughout his adult life.
There’s not much to do in hyde park so you should go if you’re there… but if you’re a history buff like me then its worth making the trip

The library is the more interesting of the two places here, being the first of the Presidential Libaries to be established. It exhibits loads of intersting memorobilia from the Roosevelt years. The house has some personal effects of Roosevelt, but a lot of it reflects his mother’s taste. People often remark about how dowdy it seems but one must remember that Franklin’s branch of the Roosevelt family were the country bumbkin cousins whereas Eleanor, his fifth cousin, came from the sophisticated New York set. Nonetheless, anyone traveling in the Hudson Valley and having an interest in American history should stop here and at nearby Val Kill.