Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

10/12/2026

The will be open on Monday, October 12th.
All regular admission prices will be discounted by $4.

10/06/2026

10/06/2026

The TR Site is deee-lighted to announce its first-ever "Sleigh Shop @ the Carriage House" -- sponsored by Wegmans.

This two-day artisan market will take place on Small Business Saturday (Sat, Nov 28) and continue through Sunday, November 29th. It will be open at the TR Site from 10:00am to 5:00pm each day.

Artisans/vendors who are interested in participating are invited to submit an application (https://tinyurl.com/SleighShopApplication).

Applications must be returned no later than November 5th to be included in promotional marketing. We are unable to guarantee that artisans/vendors who submit applications after that date will be acknowledged in marketing materials.

10/02/2026

With October comes our annual elephant ear harvest! Did you know that our iconic "ears" are trimmed back and overwintered in our 1840s cellar each year?

10/02/2026

To the folks who reached out and said they needed "just another day or two" to visit the and check out our Quasquicentennial (125th Anniversary) Exhibit . . . we heard you!!

12 DAYS IN BUFFALO THAT CHANGED THE WORLD will remain open at the TR Site (641 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY) through 5pm this Sunday, October 4th.

After that . . . the exhibit panels will come down, the artifacts will be put away, and we'll be getting ready to host later this month!

10/01/2026

Each month, we (randomly) choose one state, and in-person visitors from that state receive a special 10% discount on all bookstore purchases at the TR Site.

Our State-of-the-Month for October is . . . VIRGINIA!! 🎉

09/30/2026

It's at the TR Site! As part of our special exhibit, we've installed a Wish Wall for . Here are just a few of the answers our visitors have already left.

What's YOUR wish for America?

ICYMI, our new exhibit -- 12 DAYS IN BUFFALO -- takes a closer at the days leading up to TR's 1901 inauguration. It includes dramatic period photos & rarely-seen artifacts. 12 DAYS will be closing this Sunday (Oct 4) & is included with regular admission. It can be paired with a guided tour of the historic home, or viewed as a stand-alone experience. Don't miss it!!!

09/30/2026

in 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt -- as seen in the colorized postcard from the 's collection -- was in Canton (OH) to dedicate the McKinley National Memorial. It was just over six years since TR's presidential predecessor had been tragically assassinated at Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition.

Fifty thousand people were present at the dedication ceremony. Along with the scale of the monument and the speed with which funds were raised to build it, this speaks to President William McKinley's immense popularity with the American public.

The exterior of the circular, domed monument is made of pink granite. It rises 96 feet above ground and measures 79 feet in diameter. Within the monument, a red, white, and blue skylight features 45 stars -- one for each state in the Union at the time of McKinley's death. Visitors who climb the 108 stone steps to the monument's entrance are faced with double bronze doors that were (at the time of installation) the largest ever cast. Within the interior memorial chamber, President McKinley and his wife Ida are laid to rest next to each other in polished, dark-green, granite sarcophagi that sit atop a 10-foot-square altar made from polished dark maroon granite. Their two young daughters are also interred in within the walls of the monument.

Fundraising to build the McKinley National Memorial began with a public appeal for $600,000 (approx. $23.6M in 2026 dollars) that was issued less than a month after the 25th president's death. To commemorate William McKinley's birthday in January 1902, huge numbers of children brought their pennies (which were still being produced back then) to school and donated them to the memorial fund. More than a million people ultimately contributed to the McKinley National Memorial Association.

In dedicating the memorial, TR eulogized his predecessor, saying: “He rose to the foremost place among our statesmen, reaching a position that would satisfy the keenest ambition, but he never lost that simple and thoughtful kindness toward every human being, great or small, lofty or humble, with whom he was brought in contact, which so endeared him to our people.”

If you want to learn more about the McKinley Memorial and see some fascinating behind-the-scenes footage, be sure to check out this fascinating PBS documentary: https://www.pbswesternreserve.org/productions/monumental-devotion-the-mckinley-national-memorial/

09/29/2026

In honor of tomorrow, we wanted to share a few facts (and myths!) about Theodore Roosevelt and coffee.

-He didn’t coin Maxwell House’s saying, “Good to the last drop!” and we haven’t been able to source him drinking a gallon of coffee day, as he’s often cited as doing.

-But his coffee cup was larger than normal. His son Ted said, “It was so large it was more in the nature of a bathtub.” And his daughter Ethel noted, “No one else had such a large cup.”

-Roosevelt’s favorite type of coffee came from Puerto Rico. In fact, according to Roosevelt in a 1903 letter, “Our whole family have taken to it so now we use no other.”

-But according to Edith in a 1906 letter to Ethel, the family might not have liked it as much as Roosevelt thought: “I have likewise ordered the coffee which is also the kind we all use unless Father is at home, when I have Porto Rico coffee.”

-Roosevelt preferred his coffee with sugar or saccharine. He strained hot milk over the coffee and then dropped in something sweet. As Ethel remembered, “When all was ready dropping the saccharine which fizzed so pleasantly.”

-After Roosevelt’s death, his sons and his daughter Ethel opened up a Brazilian coffeehouse in New York City that they ran from 1919 to 1928. To avoid legal issues with the first name (Brazilian Coffee House), they renamed it the Double-R in 1921 for Roosevelt and Robinson (the last name of their cousin who was also an owner.)

-The Roosevelt children sold the Double-R to a couple who had met at the Double-R five years prior!

What’s your favorite fact about Theodore Roosevelt and coffee? Let us know in the comments below.