Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, Medora, North Dakota
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library rises from the Badlands of Medora, North Dakota, a sustainability-driven public landmark where the ground plane had to perform as hard as the architecture. Across roughly 8,000 square feet of pathways and parking areas installed in 2025 and 2026, the project set flexible wood block pavers on a ROMEX(R) system and jointed them for a brutal cold climate and heavy public traffic. CD Tile & Stone carried out the installation to a design by landscape architect Confluence Landscape Architecture.
PRODUCT SELECTION
The build used ROMEX TRASS BED, ROMEX ADHESION ELUTRIANT, ROMEX FLEX JOINT, and ROMEX D7000, each chosen for a specific demand. TRASS BED gave the wood block pavers a permeable, frost-resistant bed built to survive North Dakota winters, and ADHESION ELUTRIANT bonded the pavers to it in the parking areas, where vehicle loads made a locked, stable surface essential. ROMEX FLEX JOINT, a flexible resin joint, suited the vehicle parking areas and the movement of a flexible wood-block surface, holding the joints without cracking. ROMEX D7000 stabilized a recycled decomposed aggregate joint fill in other pedestrian areas, locking the loose material in place while keeping it easy to maintain, which matched the library’s sustainability mandate.
PROJECT LOCATION
The library sits in Medora, in the rugged Badlands of western North Dakota, the landscape that shaped Roosevelt and now a major public destination. The climate is unforgiving: long, extremely cold winters with sustained freeze-thaw that punish any surface not built for frost. As a heavily visited public site, the pathways and parking areas also take constant foot and vehicle traffic. The hardscape had to hold up to both, and do it within a project built to demanding sustainability standards.
PROJECT NEEDS
Several challenges converged. The extreme cold and long winters made frost resistance non-negotiable across every surface. Heavy public traffic meant the pavers and joints had to stay stable and safe under constant use. The flexible wood block paver, a unique choice, needed a setting and jointing approach that could move with it rather than fight it. And the design called for recycled decomposed aggregate as a joint fill, which had to be locked firmly in place and easy to maintain rather than scattering underfoot.
PROJECT SOLUTION
The wood block pavers were set on ROMEX TRASS BED, with ROMEX ADHESION ELUTRIANT added to bond them in the parking areas that carry vehicles, giving those zones a stable, frost-resistant, load-bearing base. In the vehcile areas, ROMEX FLEX JOINT filled the joints with a flexible resin that moves with the wood block surface and stays intact through the freeze-thaw cycle. Where the design used recycled decomposed aggregate, ROMEX D7000 stabilized it into a firm, bound joint that holds its place and cleans up easily. The result is a cold-climate hardscape that carries heavy public traffic on a flexible paver while meeting the library’s recycled-material and low-maintenance goals.
Permeable pathways and parking areas
Medora, North Dakota
2025-2026
Commercial
