FDR Suite

• FDR’s Harvard Through The Brush of Edward Penfield

  Many of you may not be aware (as I was not, despite 3 years residence) that Adams House possesses a tremendous artistic treasure built into its walls, one that gives…

• The Music of FDR’s Harvard

  For those of you interested in learning more about what music was like in the early years of the past century, this fascinating excerpt from the 1910 Encyclopedia of American…

• Welcome to our FDR Project Email Subscribers!

  This is just a short post to introduce our email subscribers to the new FDR Suite Restoration Project blog. Rather than sending out email notices every so often, we thought…

• Bestsellers of 1903

  In our continuing search to furnish the Suite, we’re looking for period books, among them the bestsellers of 1903. If you have copies of these books in good condition that…

• The Crimson Garter

  While 110 years isn’t that long ago in relative terms, in many ways FDR’s Harvard existed in an entirely different world than the one most of us knew. As an…

• Original Suite Plans Discovered, Plus A Progress Update

  Due to some persistent sleuthing on the part of Carl Jay, Chief Preservationist for Shawmut construction, the original plans for FDR suite were discovered this past May at the offices…