The wooden building features a four-columned central temple form portico.
Finished in 1932, the Little White House is a modest, six room one-story cottage.
His public obligations from 1929 to 1933 limited his visits to Warm Springs to about a month each year.Īs President-elect, during the Depression winter of 1932-33, he went twice to Warm Springs staying in his new house. Roosevelt’s success in the governorship brought him overwhelming reelection in 1930 and the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1932. This victory set him on his path to the White House. After supporting Al Smith for the presidency at the National Democratic Convention, Roosevelt, at Smith’s behest, accepted the nomination for governor of New York, the position Smith was vacating. Roosevelt continued for the rest of his life to be actively involved with the foundation, participating in decisions regarding management of the hospital at Warm Springs, including tearing down the old Meriweather Inn to replace it with safer, more accessible buildings for the handicapped.Īlthough never again able to use his legs fully, by 1928, Roosevelt regained enough physical and emotional strength to return to his great passion, politics. The organization became the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the sponsor of the “March of Dimes,” and was instrumental in promoting the development of a cure for polio. The Warm Springs Foundation created what became the first and for many years, the only hospital devoted solely to the treatment of poliomyelitis victims in the world. Seeking medical advice and contributions from his friends, he organized the nonprofit Warms Springs Foundation in 1927 turning property over to the foundation. In 1926, he bought the resort property and 1,200 acres from George Peabody for some $200,000. By his return in 1925, other patients were coming in the hope of a cure. A syndicated Sunday newspaper supplement featured his experience. Because Roosevelt was nationally prominent, his visit assured publicity for Warm Springs. For the first time in three years, he was able to move his right leg. The next day, he began swimming and immediately felt an improvement. Roosevelt arrived at the resort on Octohoping to find a cure. Roosevelt, the young politician paralyzed from the waist down in 1921 from polio. Peabody shared the story of a young polio victim’s recovery after bathing in the swimming pools at Warm Springs with his friend, Franklin D. George Foster Peabody, a prominent businessman and philanthropist in New York, purchased the property in 1923. By the turn of the 20th century, the town of Warm Springs and the resort were in decline. In 1893, Charles Davis constructed the Victorian 300-room Meriwether Inn with resort pools, a dance pavilion, bowling alley, tennis court, and trap shooting. The water flowing from the hillside of Pine Mountain was used to create the resort pools. The population grew with the advancement of the railroad, and by the 1830’s, it was the site of a summer resort and a village. By the late 18th century, settlers came to the area. Warm Springs Historic District is adjacent to the small Georgia town that is its namesake. He also carried on important official duties when he was there. Influenced by his experiences in this rural area, President Roosevelt developed New Deal programs, such as the Rural Electrification Administration. Roosevelt returned to use the therapeutic waters at Warm Springs every year, except 1942, from his first visit in 1924 until his death there in 1945. Roosevelt, 32nd president of the United States found the strength to resume his political career and a positive outlet for his own personal struggle with polio through creation of the Warm Springs Foundation.
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