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| Additional
Images |
| Primary
Object |
| Roosevelt
Planting
Orange
Tree |
| Artist/Maker |
| Riverside
Photo
Co. |
| Title/Object
Name |
| Photograph |
| Date |
| May
7, 1903 |
| Medium |
| Paper |
| Dimensions |
H
–
7
½”
W
–
9
½”
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| Artifact
Descriptions |
| The
photograph
shows
President
Theodore
Roosevelt
with
a shovel
and
wearing
a top
hat. To
Roosevelt’s
left
are
Frank
Miller
and
his
wife,
Isabella.
The
caption
on the
photograph
reads: “President
Roosevelt
Replanting
the
Original
Orange
Tree
in Front
of the
Old
Adobe
and
Campanile
Glenwood
Hotel
Where
he Spent
the
Night
of May
7, 1903 Riverside,
California.” Note
– the
actual
tree
planting
ceremony
was
held
on May
8th. |
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October 6, 2006
 uring the Spring of 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) traveled over fourteen thousand miles during a two-month trip through the Western United States. The President visited 150 cities and towns in twenty-five states, and gave over two hundred speeches. When he reached California by train, the President first stopped in Barstow. He also made stops in Victorville, Redlands, San Bernardino, and Riverside that same day. By the time Roosevelt arrived at the Mission Inn, it was nearly dark. Over four hundred attended a banquet held in his honor. The President stayed in a four-room suite on the main floor of the hotel, later named the Presidential Suite. On the morning on May 8, prior to leaving Riverside, the President participated in a tree planting ceremony. He transplanted one of Riverside’s two famous parent navel orange trees in the Court of the Birds (Holtz, 1982). These trees launched a citrus economy that made Riverside the richest American city of the 1890s.
In addition to Theodore Roosevelt, nine other United States Presidents have visited the Mission Inn or its predecessor, the Glenwood Hotel. Riverside artist Bonnie Brown commemorated all ten Presidents with oil portraits that hang in the main lobby. William McKinley registered at the Glenwood while still an Ohio Congressman in May, 1881.While serving asthe twenty-third President,Benjamin Harrison stopped outside the Glenwood Inn on April 23, 1891, and accepted a basket of flowers from Frank Miller’s daughter, Allis. The twenty-seventh American President, William Howard Taft, briefly attended a banquet at the Mission Inn on October 12, 1909. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover also visited the hotel while en route to choose a site for the Boulder Dam on March 19, 1922. He later became the thirty-first President. John Fitzgerald Kennedy attended the Institute of World Affairs at the Mission Inn in December of 1940 when only twenty-three years of age, shortly after authoring the best selling book Why England Slept. He became the thirty-fifth President nineteen years later. Richard Nixon married Pat Ryan in the Inn’s Presidential Suite in June 1940; he had visited the hotel numerous times previously as a young person. President of the Screen Actor’s Guild and future fortieth President of the United States Ronald Reagan married his bride Nancy Davis at the Little Brown Church in the San Fernando Valley on March 4, 1952, then drove fifty miles to spend their wedding night in the Mission Inn. Former President Gerald Ford, our thirty-eighth chief executive, visited the hotel in March 1998, over a decade after he vacated the Oval Office. George W. Bush attended a fundraiser on September 29, 1999 before winning the 2000 election and becoming the forty-third President. He returned in 2003.
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| Lesson
Plans & Standards |
 Classroom
Lesson Plans
California
Educational Standards
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| Online
Links & Resources |
White
House
http://www.whitehouse.gov
American
President.org
www.americanpresident.org
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| Bibliography |
- Hall,
Joan H. (1996). Through
the Doors of the Mission Inn.
Riverside, CA: Highgrove Press.
- Klotz, Esther, Harry W. Lawton and Joan H. Hall. (eds.). (1989). A History of Citrus In the Riverside Area. Riverside, CA: Riverside Museum Press.
- Lech, Steven and Kim Jarrell Johnson. (2006). Riverside's Mission Inn. Mount Pleasant, SC: Arcadia Publishing.
- Morris,
Edmund. (2001). Theodore
Rex. New
York: Random
House.
- Roosevelt, Theodore. (1903). California Addresses By President Roosevelt. San Francisco: The California Promotion Committee.
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