2. Wave Hill, Bronx


Wave Hill House was built in 1843 by William Lewis Morris, grandnephew of Lewis Morris, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and later sold to publisher William Henry Appleton. The Roosevelts rented Wave Hill House in the Bronx from Appleton in 1870 and 1871, when Teddy was 12 and 13, in hopes to aid his asthma. The historians at Wave Hill believe these summers inspired Teddy’s later contributions to the conservation of natural parkland.