When Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracted polio in 1921, one of the few things that eased his pain was hot water. In October of 1924 he made his first trip to the 88 degree natural hot spring in Warm Springs, Georgia.

He loved it there, so much so that he bought the ramshackle old rehabilitation center and its grounds.

In 1932, as Governor of New York, he would retreat to the six-room white Georgia Pine house he had built in Warm Springs, swim in its pool, and take the spring waters.

Roosevelt used the house in Georgia as a Presidential retreat, visiting it sixteen times over the years. In 1945 he died there of a stroke while having his portrait painted.

The painting is one of the original furnishings that can be seen by visitors to the Little White House. The Roosevelt’s Little White House has been open to the public since 1948.

Address: Roosevelt’s Little White House, 401 Little White House Road, Warm Springs, GA 31830, Phone: 705-855-5870

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