A Spectacular Theodore Roosevelt Library Deep in the Badlands; The New York Times, July 17, 2026

Michael Kimmelman

Visuals by Will Warasila

 , The New York Times; A Spectacular Theodore Roosevelt Library Deep in the Badlands

"You’d be hard-pressed not to like the new $450 million Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. It’s an easy charmer and a spectacular work of ecologically minded architecture in the drop-dead gorgeous North Dakota Badlands.

The firm Snohetta in New York designed it. The building is 93,000 square feet of mass-timber and rammed-earth — a huge Hobbit house hugging the precipice of a grassy butte overlooking the tiny town of Medora, N.D.

Theodore Roosevelt National Park is five minutes away."

North Dakota Power Trio Opens Up About Trump, the Filibuster and Teddy Roosevelt; Politico, July 8, 2026

JONATHAN MARTIN , Politico; North Dakota Power Trio Opens Up About Trump, the Filibuster and Teddy Roosevelt

"Roosevelt’s birthplace in Manhattan’s Flatiron and his sprawling Oyster Bay summer estate on Long Island are both run by the National Park Service. Yet because he served before the National Archives took over the presidential library system, Roosevelt was the most famous American president post-Lincoln without his own dedicated library.

Enter Burgum, Gov. Kelly Armstrong, Sen. Kevin Cramer and the other North Dakotans who saw opportunity — and dollar signs — at the foot of the Theodore Roosevelt National Park here.

Raising over $350 million, overwhelmingly from private donors, the North Dakotans met their goal of opening the library for America’s 250th birthday. And it is a gem. Sitting atop a butte, with a beige color matching the sandstone land, Teddy’s temple offers resplendent views outside and a vivid, high-tech retelling of his life therein. As the remarkably lifelike AI Roosevelt inside might say, he’d be “deeee-lighted.”"