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Teddy Roosevelt Slept Here Too - Durand-Hedden House & Garden
Teddy Roosevelt Slept Here Too - Durand-Hedden House & Garden
The gates at the entrance to Hickory Drive were erected c. 1862 using stones from a building on the Isaac Smith farm. One of the stones on the south pillar facing Ridgewood Road bears the inscription I.S. 1766.
An eyewitness account by Edna Farmer Miller, who grew up on Mountain Avenue, describes the scene: “The most spectacular fire of my childhood was the burning of the Roosevelt Inn, which stood in Roosevelt Park on the corner of Kermit Road and Hickory Drive."The stone entryways at the foot of Curtiss Place and Roosevelt Road were built about 1905-6, during Teddy Roosevelt's presidency, and streets were given the names Roosevelt, Sagamore, Quentin and Kermit (two of TR’s sons) to reflect the TR connection to the property. By 1906 the first of the lots were sold and construction had begun. Most of the houses – like most houses in Maplewood – were built by the mid-1930s, but a number of those on Hickory and Curtiss were completed before 1910.
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