I'm glad you can afford the cost as your health care and social security are facing cuts, dear American taxpayers:
"Roosevelt home ready for makeover; Teddy’s ‘summer White House’ to get $6.2m facelift" December 03, 2011|By Frank Eltman, Associated Press
OYSTER BAY, N.Y. - The entire contents of Sagamore Hill are being packed up and put in storage as the National Park Service prepares for a three-year, $6.2 million renovation of the 28-room, Queen Anne-Shingle style mansion in Oyster Bay. The 26th president of the United States, who had the home built for him in 1885, lived there until his death in 1919. He used Sagamore Hill as a “summer White House’’ during his presidency from 1901-1909.
Look, I love history as much as the next guy, but isn't there something better taxpayer money could be devoted to right now?
Btw, are you getting a government renovation of your home -- if you managed to keep it, that is -- American?
Workers have already spent nine months packing books and other smaller items into boxes, using special care to catalog every one and place it on a computer spreadsheet. The three-story home has 15 bedrooms and three bathrooms, as well as sitting rooms and offices. It sits on a nearly 83-acre lot high atop a hill overlooking an inlet that leads to Long Island Sound.
Sagamore Hill, which sees about 50,000 visitors annually, closes to the public on Monday so craftspeople can begin the heavy lifting in earnest to rehabilitate the 1885 home that hasn’t seen any major renovations in more than a half century. A much smaller display of Roosevelt memorabilia - including his White House china - will remain on display in a smaller building on the property throughout the three-year project.
Plans call for upgrades to the electrical, heating, security, and fire suppression systems throughout the home, which has been a National Park Service historic site since the early 1960s. Exterior work will include a new roof, gutter and drainage system, foundation waterproofing, and restoration of 78 historic windows, doors, porches, and siding.
Also to be restored are Sagamore Hill’s original rear porch and a skylight in the center of the house, both of which were altered or removed in the 1950s when the Theodore Roosevelt Association owned the property and first opened it to public visits. The association ran Sagamore Hill for about a decade before the National Park Service took over in 1962, a fitting custodian for the home of the man who championed the creation of the national park system.
“Theodore Roosevelt’s house is like anybody else’s house,’’ said Amy Verone, chief of cultural resources at Sagamore Hill.
Is your pos home a mansion, set-upon Americans?
She joked, however, that not everyone tackling a renovation project in their home has to contend with finding a place for 10-foot-elephant tusks adorned with silver inlays.
“You should replace your furnace system, you should update your electrical system, you should do all those kinds of things,’’ Verone said...
. I would if I received a $6 billion dollar government check.
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