Worth A Glance

• 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…

• A Donation, and Musical Discovery

  Thanks to the folks at parlorsongs.com, we’ve received 20 presentation copies of sheet music from 1900-1903, selected especially for the Suite, and through the good offices of our former, and…

• Welcome to the FDR Suite Restoration Project Blog

  Hello Everyone! For months now, I’ve been promising that we would provide regular updates on our progress renovating FDR’s student digs at Harvard, as well as announcements of news, events,…