$450 Million Theodore Roosevelt Library Opens in North Dakota Badlands as 93,000-Square-Foot Landmark
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 16
$450 Million Theodore Roosevelt Library Opens in North Dakota Badlands as 93,000-Square-Foot Landmark
2 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 16
Summary
$450 million has delivered a new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota, a 93,000-square-foot complex set on a butte in the Badlands.
Snohetta designed the project as an ecologically minded building of mass timber and rammed earth, with the structure hugging the landscape above the town.
The site sits about five minutes from Theodore Roosevelt National Park, tying the library closely to the landscape central to Roosevelt’s legacy.
The opening adds to a recent wave of presidential projects, following Barack Obama’s $850 million center in Chicago last month.