Roosevelt's Medora in 3D
The two towns and the Chateau as Roosevelt knew them, 1883 to 1887, as simple shapes on today's ground.
Drag to turn, right-drag or two fingers to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom. Back to the 2D map .
Find a building
Choose a building… Walk the town
Click once on the model to fly to that spot. Click a building to read what is known about it.Double-click to stand on that spot at eye height, like street view.Once you're standing: drag to look around, click the ground to walk to it, or use the arrow keys (Shift to run). Esc returns to the overview.
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Compare with the period photographs
Open a photograph and the model is drawn from where the photographer stood. Slide between the photo and the model to see what matches.
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Confidence
A marker floats over each building. The letter is the lower of its location and form grades.
A, documented: survives, or measured and photographed
B, supported: a period photo or a specific description
C, inferred: reasoned from written sources
D, conjectural: known to exist; place or shape is a placeholder
Show markers
Only on uncertain buildings (C and D) On every building None Light and season
Summer, midday Summer, evening Summer, early morning Winter (the hard winter of 1886-87)
Click a building to see what is known about it.
About the model
Ground: USGS 2021 lidar, bare earth, so it includes today's railroad embankment, highway and gravel pits. Heights: measured from the 2021 lidar point cloud for surviving buildings, and read off the solved 1885 photographs for the Hotel de Mores, Roberts Hall and the Metropolitan. Other buildings use standard heights for their number of stories. See the method .