Not content
with simply preserving old homes, Franklin Roosevelt set out to create new
structures. At FDR's insistence, Eleanor Roosevelt and her associates
Marion Dickerman, Nancy Cook, and Caroline O'Day set out to build a cottage
["Val-Kill"] on the estate for their furniture business; it is
not surprising who had the most input into the building's design. Franklin
Roosevelt, according architect Henry J. Toombs, had an interest in
"every detail of the cottage's arrangement, appointments, and
construction."
