Worth A Glance

  • Bird’s-Eye View of Harvard

    A while back, I acquired this wonderful 1895 bird’s-eye view of Harvard for the Suite, and I thought you might enjoy seeing it. (The original is 11 x 17;  click…

  • Lathrop’s Desk

    “The rooms look as if struck by sheet lightning, the sitting-room having the chairs and tables but no curtains or carpets. The bed is in place in my room and…

  • Adopt an Antique!

    I’m just back from the Brimfield Antiques Fair, the largest in the country. Held three times a year, it’s a truly amazing event, spread out along three miles of bucolic…

  • Presidential Pathways: A Walking Tour of Harvard

    The Harvard Alumni Association invites you to a collection series: Presidential Pathways: A Walking Tour of Harvard Featuring Michael Weishan, Author, PBS Host, President of the FDR Suite Foundation. Saturday,…

  • Of Arms and a Man, and a Foundation

    For over a year now, we been searching for some sort of logo for the Foundation. We’ve thought of many different options, only to discard them one by one: too…

  • FDR’s Secret Code

    How’s this for an elliptical tale: I was sitting last evening in FDR Suite, attending a small get-together hosted by Claire Mays, ’81, who’s our first guest since the Suite…