How is the Roosevelt Library different from the Home of FDR?
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is administered by the National Archives and Records Administration. FDR gave the land on which the Library is built to the National Archives in 1939, and the Library was opened to the public in 1941. It is the only presidential library used by a sitting president since FDR worked in his Study in the Library when he came to Hyde Park during his Third and Fourth Terms. In accordance with his wishes, several hundred acres of the Roosevelt Estate that surround the Library were given to the National Park Service by the Roosevelt Family after the President’s death in 1945. This land, now adminstered by the National Park Service as the Home of FDR National Historic Site, includes the Roosevelt home known as Springwood as well as the Rose Garden where FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt and Fala are buried. The two agencies work closely together to ensure that visitors to Hyde Park have a rich and full experience. In 2004, the National Archives and
