This site is closed due to the government shutdown and will no longer offer Drop-In hours during OHNY Weekend.

"On October 27, 1858, I was born at No. 28 East Twentieth Street, New York City, in the house in which we lived during the time that my two sisters and my brother and I were small children. It was furnished in the canonical taste of the New York which George William Curtis described in the Potiphar Papers. The black haircloth furniture in the dining-room scratched the bare legs of the children when they sat on it. The middle room was a library, with tables, chairs, and bookcases of gloomy respectability. It was without windows, and so was available only at night. The front room, the parlor, seemed to us children to be a room of much splendor, but was open for general use only on Sunday evening or on rare occasions when there were parties." — Theodore Roosevelt

Tours are first-come, first-served. Lines are expected at this site. Large bags must be kept in the free self-serve lockers on the visitor center floor. Food and drink are not permitted inside.