Hillwood Art Museum Exhibition
Details Historic Site Preservation
Theodore Roosevelt's 1885 home at Sagamore Hill - known as The Summer
White House and center of the day-to-day administration of the country's
affairs during the summers from 1902 to 1909 - has been restored to its
1905 grandeur through the efforts of the National Parks Service.
The public is invited to view the exhibition, "Sagamore Hill: Preservation
of an Historic Landmark," which will showcase the restoration and
conservation of the 26th President's home.
On display at the Hillwood Art Museum on the C.W. Post Campus of Long
Island University from August 13 to November 14 are objects, photos, blue
prints, and furniture as well as reproductions of architectural elements
that will afford visitors an opportunity to explore the techniques used
to restore this historical site.
This exhibition is being held to coincide with Hillwood Art Museum's
"Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century," a traveling
exhibition of the 26th president's valuable personal and presidential effects,
includes his Rough Riders hat and more than 120 objects depicting his prestigious
and often controversial political and personal car
Both exhibitions are free and will be on display from August 13 to November
14, 1999.
Through August 31, the Hillwood Art Museum is open Monday through Friday
9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Starting in September, the hours are Monday through
Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.
and Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Hillwood Art Museum
is located on the C.W. Post Campus, Northern Boulevard (Route 25A) in Brookville.
For more information, contact the museum at (516) 299-4073 or museum@hornet.liu.edu.
For more information call the C.W. Post Public
Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu
or send mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
