Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site

Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site is a recreated brownstone at 28 East 20th Street, between Broadway and Park Avenue South, in the Flatiron District of Manhattan, New York City.

Noted female American architect Theodate Pope Riddle was given the task of reconstructing a replica of the house, as well as designing the museum, situated next door, that serves to complete the site.

28 East Twentieth Street, New York City, in the house in which we lived during the time that my two sisters and my brother and I were small children.

The Sunday evening family gathering was the redeeming feature in a day which otherwise we children did not enjoy--chiefly because we were all of us made to wear clean clothes and keep neat.

I accepted that moujik as a priceless work of art, and it was not until I was well in middle age that it occurred to me that I was mistaken.The three-story brownstone house features a mansard roof, and a high stoop above the basement.

[2] In 2014, Theodate Pope Riddle was recognized for her work rebuilding the home, a winning site of Built by Women New York City,[6] a competition launched by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation during the fall of 2014 to identify outstanding and diverse sites and spaces designed, engineered and built by women.

Sitting room
The home features an array of items from pivotal moments in Roosevelt's life, including the bullet-pierced shirt and speech from the 1912 assassination attempt .