Where did Theodore Roosevelt grow up and live?

📍20 Sagamore Hill Road, Oyster Bay, New York 11771, USA

1885 – 1919

“I bought Sagamore Hill in Oyster Bay, Long Island in 1884, the year my wife Alice and my mother both died on the same day — the 14th of February, Valentine's Day. I went west to the Badlands of Dakota to grieve, to hunt, to become someone who could survive what had happened. I came back to Sagamore Hill two years later with a second wife, Edith, and we made it a home of extraordinary vitality — six children, constant guests, books everywhere, the piazza where I worked and thought and received visitors. I was President from 1901 to 1909 and I always came back here. The Long Island Sound was visible from the house, the woods were full of birds I could identify by call, and the energy of the place matched my own.”

👍 LovedThe Long Island Sound and the woods full of birds. The piazza where the thinking happened. The family life that Sagamore Hill contained — the six children, the noise, the vitality.

👎 DislikedThe deaths of Alice Lee and my mother on the same day that preceded the house's true life. The grief of the Dakota years. The later political disappointments.

Map showing where Theodore Roosevelt lived — 20 Sagamore Hill Road, Oyster Bay, New York 11771, USA

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Theodore Roosevelt's home at 20 Sagamore Hill Road, Oyster Bay, New York 11771, USA

📍 Street view today

Sources: Morris, E. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979), Coward, McCann & Geoghegan; Millard, C. The River of Doubt (2005), Doubleday