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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic SiteSaved by a book and a glasses case - Theodore Roosevelt was injured but survived an assassination attempt
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Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site
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Lion's Room Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace NHS

Please allow one hour for a tour of the museum and period rooms. Allow thirty minutes for viewing a film. The complete visit should take approximately one and a half hours.

Groups will tour the site in small groups of ten to twenty students ( two groups maximum). Please divide your class before you arrive and assign at least one adult to each group to serve as the group leader.

Before arriving for your visit, please advise the class that the historic objects in the museum and period rooms are quite fragile and therefore cannot be handled or touched.

Restrooms are available at the site. There are no eating facilities at the site and no food or beverages are permitted in the building.

Please call 212-260-1616 to make reservations.

Did You Know?  

Did You Know?
Thomas Stone NHS is one of only four parks in the National Park System that have homes of signers of the Declaration of Independence still standing; Adams NHP in Massachusetts, William Floyd estate on Fire Island NS, and the Thomas Nelson House at the Yorktown unit of Colonial NHP are the others.

Last Updated: June 14, 2007 at 09:53 EST