Little White House
A house in Warm Springs, Georgia, Little White House is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Where FDR died at the easel—April 12, 1945. HauntHunt files it with local folklore. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors. It is the sort of entry the archive keeps because the ground and the telling both survive.
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Is Little White House haunted?
The record holds 1 claim — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed anecdotal. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
The Little White House is where FDR died — the 1932 cottage at Warm Springs where Roosevelt went for the polio waters in 1924 and died of a cerebral hemorrhage in April 1945. The 'Unfinished Portrait' is still there; he was posing for it when he collapsed.
The house was the retreat — the 88-degree spring waters that let him move his right leg for the first time in three years, the Warm Springs Foundation that became the March of Dimes, the New Deal programs he wrote there. He came 41 times; it was the place that made him president again.
The house is still there — the six-room cottage as he left it, the unfinished portrait, the pools that drew him in 1924. The file keeps the Little White House: the 1932 construction, the 1945 death, and the cottage that's the president's memorial.
The Little White House is the archive's FDR file — the polio retreat, the unfinished portrait, and the cottage that's where the presidency ended.
Why this file matters
The Little White House is the archive's FDR file — the Warm Springs retreat, the polio waters, and the house where he died.
A house where a president died keeps its portrait — the file's suggestion being that the Little White House's hold is the unfinished: the portrait he was posing for, the spring that brought him, and the cottage that's still 1945.
The Little White House was the personal retreat of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, located in the Historic District of Warm Springs, Georgia. He first came to Warm Springs (formerly known as Bullochville) in 1924 for polio treatment, and liked the area so much that, as Governor of New York, he had a home built on nearby Pine Mountain. The house was finished in 1932. Roosevelt kept the house after he became president, using it as a presidential retreat. He died there on April 12, 1945, three months into his fourth term. The house was opened to the public as a museum in 1948. A major attraction of the museum is the portrait that the artist Elizabeth Shoumatoff w
Little White HouseThe record of claims
Reported a presence in the house. Little White House wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. It's anecdotal evidence in the strictest sense — stories, repeated, unresolved. Sources including 'Little White House' keep the claim in circulation. It is the sighting the place is known for, and it hasn't stopped.
Documented history
FDR died here April 12, 1945; the portrait is documented. Little White House's history is documented rather than told — this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. The detail is preserved in 'Little White House'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
Verified historyWikipedia
Sources on file
- 01Little White HouseWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
Field notes & open questions
GA/TN batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.