Roosevelt Home on 57th Street
The Roosevelt's home at 6 West 57th Street was designed by the noted architect Russell Sturgis Furness. He was also responsible for the design of the interiors and furniture. Furnace and the cabinet maker Dan Pabst of Philadelphia frequently collaborated and Furnace used Pabst to execute he designs for the Roosevelts.
Pabst built the ornately detailed paneling, the bookcases and the cabinetry. Included in Furnace's design sketchbook are the mantels, the massive dinning room table with a base of carved herons pinching frogs in their bills and a sketch of the cameo-carved master bedroom suite inherited by TR and on display at Sagamore Hill.
It was in the 57th Street house where on Valentine's Day 1884 TR lost his mother to typhoid fever and his wife Alice to Bright's disease two days after giving birth to her namesake.
After his mother's death the house was immediately sold to John Kennedy and the contents were divided among the children. John Kennedy was not related to the Boston Kennedys but instead was a family friend who sat on the board of the Museum of Natural History. The original house no longer exists.
