Support for the Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation

The Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation (TRMF) is a non-profit foundation created in 1986 by Harold Schafer when he sold his Gold Seal Company and gifted the company's assets in Medora to the new foundation.

 Since its founding the TRMF has generated more than $25 million in gifts which have gone toward expansion and improvement of the Historic Medora experience.

If you visit Medora in 2009, you will see the progress on the largest project ever undertaken here, the restoration and expansion of the historic Rough Riders Hotel, a place often frequented by Theodore Roosevelt during his time here (it was called the "Metropolitan" then, but renamed after the exploits of TR and his Rough Riders during the Spanish American War).

This $12.5 million project, called the Rough Riders Hotel Town Square: Historic Inn, Fine Dining and Meeting Center, is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2010. Besides restoration of the historic rooms and dining room in the hotel, we are adding a meeting and banquet center and 68 new guest rooms, and Medora will at last become a year-around destination for North Dakotans.

All of our projects, and indeed, Medora's operation itself, depends on charitable giving by our many supporters. Thank you for considering the Medora Foundation in your charitable giving plans.