| Roosevelt Campobello International Park | |
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IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
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The cottage at Campobello |
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| Location | Campobello Island, New Brunswick |
| Nearest city | Saint John, New Brunswick |
| Area | 11.01 km2 (2,721.50 acres) |
| Established | July 7, 1964 |
| Governing body | Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission |
Roosevelt Campobello International Park preserves the house and surrounding landscape of the summer retreat where, in August 1921, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with poliomyelitis at the age of 39. The park occupies most of the southern end of Campobello Island, New Brunswick, just offshore of Lubec, Maine. The cottage, built in the Shingle Style and completed in 1897, was designed by Willard T. Sears.
The park is owned and administered by the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission, created by international treaty signed by Governor General Georges Vanier, Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, and President Lyndon B. Johnson on January 22, 1964. The park was established on July 7, 1964. Both countries provide financial support to the park. It is an affiliated area of Parks Canada and of the U.S. National Park Service.
Charter members of the board of the international commission included U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., and Lubec, Maine resident Sumner T. Pike.[1]
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