Looking Beyond the Wilcox House: Recent Restoration Efforts at the TR Site

By Lenora M. Henson - July 15, 2013

Curator Lenora Henson offers an insider’s view of recent efforts to restore the landscape surrounding the Wilcox house to that which greeted Theodore Roosevelt at his presidential inauguration in 1901.

The full content is available in the Summer 2013 Issue.

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Looking Beyond the Wilcox House: Recent Restoration Efforts at the TR Site