Construction began in June on the Theodore Roosevelt presidential library planned for the Badlands of western North Dakota
Construction is underway for the Theodore Roosevelt presidential library planned in the Badlands of western North Dakota, where the 26th president hunted and ranched as a young man in the 1880s.
“If you were to come out on site, you’re seeing a sequence that began with the topsoil, started with the east wing, moves to the west wing and then will move back to the east wing,” he said.The project is on a 93-acre site near the venue of the popular Medora Musical and the scenic national park that bears Roosevelt’s name. The sale of 90 acres of U.S. Forest Service land for the project, costing $81,000 and covered by the Roosevelt family. Congress approved the land sale in 2020.
“The anticipated pride moment” will be the delivery of mass timber and steel in spring 2024, he said.Library organizers are planning a grand opening of the library for July 4, 2026, the 250th anniversary of America’s founding.a $50 million operations endowment for the library, contingent upon its organizers raising $100 million in private donations. They announced that goal being reached in fall 2020.
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