top cottage - home of franklin d roosevelt
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top cottage - home of franklin d roosevelt印象
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This National Park Service tour is different than the rest. A shuttle runs from the main visitor's center to the site, but you can also walk up from Val-Kill. Just make sure you get your ticket before you head out. On this tour, a park ranger lets you walk around the main room, which does not have any original pieces, and peek into the bathroom and an exhibit room. You can't go upstairs. The cottage is lovely, even if you have to imagine what it looked like, but the highlight is the porch talk. While you enjoy the breezes on the porch and the view of the woods, the park ranger tells you about the cottage and FDR, while occasionally reading excerpts from letters and books. All of this is done while you sit in comfy porch chairs. I could have stayed there all afternoon listening to the ranger. Worth a trip. Check out the shuttle bus schedules so you can coordinate a visit with Val-Kill.
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If you are doing the whole FDR tour, go up to Top Cottage. It is small and quaint but very calm and peaceful. The rangers are very nice and very knowledgeable. If you don't have time to do this stop, don't worry about it. It is nice if you can do it, but you aren't missing a big piece of history if you don't go.
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Not a lot to see at Top Cottage, but the talk by the Park Ranger was very interesting. There is lot of history that should not be missed.
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First time at Top Cottage. A very unique tour conducted on the front porch of the cottage, which is located a few miles away from Springwood, the Roosevelt family home. The Top Cottage visit was a highlight of our time in Hyde Park. The tour guide tells FDR stories with the small tour group seated on the front porch. A Q&A session ensues. Don't miss it. Travel by shuttle from FDR home.
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We found the visit to Top Cottage to be somewhat of a waste of time. The small, cabin-like dwelling was devoid of any original pieces. The National Park has made a very poor attempt at furnishing one room, the living room, with reproductions that were not like the photos that were presented. The site is not very handicap accessible and the visit could have been 15 minutes but went on for nearly an hour with some photo sharing and historical vignettes on the porch. If you have to chose between Val-Kill and Top Cottage, skip Top Cottage. You certainly won't be missing much at all. Pictures in the Visitor's Center are certainly adequate.
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It was a wonderful coincidence that we visited Top Cottage the week that PBS was showing the seven day program about the Roosevelts. This is where the "hot dog" picnic for the King and Queen of England took place. The guide moved the wicker chairs to the porch in a semi-circle and he sat in front of us. He pointed to one woman, and said, "the Queen sat there." He then told the whole story of the cottage and the event. I loved it. Reservations are required and there are only two tours a day as it is a short van ride from the FDR visitor center.
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Great way to spend an afternoon - the FDR Library, Estate & Val-Kill the Eleanor Roosevelt Cottage. Add in the Vanderbilt Estate for a information filled day
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We were there in the summer of 2014 and to be honest, the house wasn't as spectacular as the rest of the grounds...I liked the park and the surroundings more than the house itself. Our ranger knew a lot and tried to tell us as much as he could combined with a few jokes, but compared to other trips I've done, he wasn't the best.
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The only way to visit here is by taking a NP bus from the FDR visitor center. A National Park Ranger is on the bus telling about known and many unknown facts about FDR. Sitting on the porch in the wicker rockers listening to the ranger relating stories of FDR and his family was one of the best afternoons ever! They only allow a few people to go at a time, so make sure you purchase your tickets at the visitor's center. I also don't think they take the bus up to the cottage more than 2 times a day, so plan your trip accordingly. The tickets to Val-Kil are also available only at the Visitor Center and a limited number of people are allowed on each ranger led tour. Anytime you have an opportunity to go on any NP Ranger led activity, just DO IT! They have so much knowledge of the park where they work, it is always such an interesting tour.
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After a brief narrated van ride from the main visitor center, we arrived at Top Cottage and were met by a historian, who enthralled us for 90 minutes. There was virtually nothing that he didn't know.I can see why FDR chose this location and why he designed this Dutch-style cottage the way he did. Wow. I so thank the US government for preserving all these FDR properties.