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The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is a presidential library in Hyde Park, New York.

Located on the grounds of Springwood, the Roosevelt family estate, it holds the records of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32ndpresident of the United States (1933–1945). The library was built under the President's personal direction in 1939–1940, and dedicated on June 30, 1941.

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It is the first presidential library in the United States and one of the thirteen presidential libraries under the auspices of the National Archives and Records Administration.

History

Roosevelt was both an avid collector of memorabilia and amateur historian.

As a then two-term president who had presided over a sweeping and dramatic phase of the nation's history during the Great Depression, he recognized the need for a facility to house the vast quantity of historical papers, books, and memorabilia he had accumulated during a lifetime of pu