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With FDR’s help, Eleanor Roosvelt and close friends Nancy Cook and Marion Dickerman built the Stone Cottage residence at Val-Kill, the Roosevelt family’s favorite picnic site. Later, the three women founded a craft workshop at Val-Kill in a building Mrs. Roosevelt later converted to her home. There she pursued her most cherished ideals and carried out some of her most significant work as a journalist, educator, and defender of human rights, among other influential roles.
JCC&A continues to work with the National Park Service to create a comprehensive visitor experience of Mrs. Roosevelt’s place, and one that connects to other Roosevelt sites in Hyde Park. Recent projects include consultation on new public interpretation at Stone Cottage and orientation exhibits for Val-Kill as a whole.
For more information about the work of JCC&A at Val-Kill and the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites, click here.
