Little White House State Historic Site

He came to Warm Springs in October 1924, drawn by a natural spring that held at 88 degrees, hoping the warm water might restore what polio had taken three years earlier. It didn't cure him — but he kept coming back, bought the property, and in 1932 ordered a six-room Georgia pine house built on the grounds. On April 12, 1945, while sitting for a portrait, he suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died. The house has been preserved as it was that day. The unfinished portrait still hangs inside.