THE MANSION
 
     All that part or parcel of property conveyed by deed
dated December 29, 1943 in which Franklin Delano Roosevelt
reserved a life estate, to the United States of America a
part of the Wheeler place consisting of 33.23 acres of land
on which was the residence, stable, garage, green houses,
ice house, one-family frame gardener's house and a
two-family frame house below the hill and other out
buildings.
 
     Erected on the property is a frame one and a half story
slate roof garage with space for four cars, one stall has
concrete flooring and the rest are wood flooring. There is
electric lights, an arcola hot water heater with radiators
on the side walls with a narrow stairway to the second
floor. There is a bath tub on legs and four partitioned
rooms. The ceilings and partitions are of board
construction and were principally used for helps sleeping
quarters. In the basement there is a horse stable with four
straight stalls, storage rooms, electric lights and
concrete flooring. This building has leaders and gutters.
 
     A one story implement shed with concrete floors, fiat
asphalt paper roof.
 
     There is a two and a half story frame wood shingle roof
coach stable with leaders and gutters, laid stone flooring,
electric lights, wainscoting side walls and ceilings, six
box horse stalls and harness rooms. In the harness room
there is wood flooring, wainscoting ceiling and side walls,
a shovel-a-day hot water heater which heats the hot water
and two radiators in the kitchen and bath room on the
second floor of the helps quarters where there are four
rooms with front room being heated by stoves. There is a
sleeping porch and the bath tub is of old type on legs. The
living quarters are at the west end of this building. On
the east end there is a hay loft.
 
     There is a frame, wood shingle roof, six room
superintendents cottage with a hot water coal burning
furnace with radiators  in each room, a shovel-a-day stove
for domestic hot water, bath room. leaders and gutters,
electric lights and cellar under a part of the house with a
concrete floor.
 
     A two-family frame duplex tenant house with six rooms
to each apartment, electric lights, hot water coal burning
furnace, two
 
 
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