June 15, 1938.
 
President Plans Retreat On New Hyde Park Site
 
Special to THE NEW YORK Times.
 
WASHINGTON, June 14.--President Roosevelt plans to build a
new retreat to which he can withdraw on his visits to Hyde
Park when he wants to avoid the interruptions that
sometimes occur at the small study in his mother's
home there.
 
A White House statement today said that with Henry Toombs,
the architect who designed some of the buildings at Warm
Springs Foundation, the President had completed plane for a
modest dwelling near Cream Street in Hyde Park Village,
where he  recently acquired a  forty-two-acre tract.
 
On a site not far from his cottage adjoining the estate of
his mother, the new five-room house will be of Dutch design
and constructed of native stone. The President has asked
for bids, but if they are not low enough the
work will not begin for some time, it was explained.