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Learn about the personalized plans President Franklin D. Roosevelt put in place for his own and his wife Eleanor’s memorial.
About the Event
It is well-known that Franklin Roosevelt died of a stroke at his home in Warm Springs, Georgia in April 1945, and buried in the rose garden of his family home at Hyde Park, NY. A lesser-known fact is that he designed the monument marking his and Eleanor’s graves. As the executors of his estate sorted through FDR’s papers after his death, they found a memo he had written in late 1937 on the funeral he wanted, and the appearance, materials and inscription for the memorial that would mark his and Eleanor’s graves. This illustrated talk examines the memorial and its design, and the reasons Roosevelt was considering his legacy and memorialization in the late 1930s.
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