December 17th, Rare Autographs, Manuscripts, Book, Auction
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Franklin Roosevelt installs a furnace on May 30 and 1928 at his Warm Springs, Georgia resort. to Mrs. James Roosevelt it’s a signed receipt with the Atlanta Wear Furnace Company of Atlanta Georgia. It is for a furnace and complete installation in the cottage on lot 8-1 for $255 by ET Curtis. It has a note written and signed by Roosevelt in pencil "please pay return receipt of the furnace to DME FDR"
In 1921, Roosevelt, aged 39, was diagnosed with poliomyelitis. The few things that seemed to ease his pain were immersion in warm water, bathing and engaging in physical exercise. His first time in Warm Springs was October 1924. He went to a resort in the town that had a permanent 88 °F (31 °C) natural spring, but whose main house was described as "ramshackle". Roosevelt bought the resort and the 1,700-acre (6.9 km2) farm surrounding it in 1927 (the resort became known as the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation). Five years later, in 1932, after winning the presidency for the first time, he ordered a six-room Georgia pine house to be built on the property. This house was his retreat throughout his presidency and became known as the Little White House.
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Franklin Roosevelt buys furnace for his Resort in Warm Springs, Georgia.
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