Fargo company crafts presidential library pieces using reclaimed wood from Roosevelt estate

Fargo company crafts presidential library pieces using reclaimed wood from Roosevelt estate

MEDORA, N.D. — Visitors to the new Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora can take in a piece of history planted by the 26th president — and given new life by a North Dakota custom furniture maker. Grain Designs of Fargo was chosen to make more than a half dozen furniture and exhibit pieces for the library using wood from a more than 120-year-old copper beech tree that once stood at Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt’s family estate in Oyster B…