Collection White House Easter Egg Roll
Since 1878, American presidents and their families have celebrated Easter Monday by hosting an "egg roll" party. Held on the South...
White House in Bloom
Today's White House grounds are a site to behold. What started as 85 acres of land chosen by George Washington, was first refined and cultivated by our garden-loving President Thomas Jefferson. These shifting grounds around the Executive Mansion have seen retaining walls, green houses, vegetable gardens, and beautiful flowers. Changes to the landscape came in long intervals and evolved to fit the era and the needs of the residents. As spring turns to summer, take a tour through the White House gardens and grounds.
Vegetable Gardens
Growing Food at the Executive Mansion
"A Very Quiet, Secret Place"
The Children's Garden
A First Lady's Floral Legacy
Lady Bird Johnson
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Collection The Kennedy Rose Garden
It's hard to imagine that it was something as casual as a lunch conversation between a newly elected president and...
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Collection Cherry Blossoms
Since the first cherry blossom planting in 1912 by First Lady Helen Herron Taft, Washingtonians have celebrated the scenic beauty and...
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Bio Edith Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne....
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Bio Jacqueline Kennedy
The inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961 brought to the White House and to the heart of the nation a...
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Bio Melania Trump
First Lady of the United States Melania Trump is the wife of President Donald J. Trump and the mother of...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 4/11/1939
WASHINGTON, Monday—We came down to Washington yesterday evening to find the trees in bud, the fountains playing outside the Wh...
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Landscapes & Gardens
John Adams was the first president to occupy the White House in 1800; one of his first additions was a vegetable...
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White House Brides and Envisioned Flowers
The first really grand White House wedding was Nellie Grant’s. For this President and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant had th...
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Japanese State Dinners
Following the close of World War II, Japan and the United States developed a close alliance and strategic and trade...
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Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day," 6/9/1939
WASHINGTON, Thursday—I have just made the rounds of every room in the White House with Mrs. Nesbitt,1 the housekeeper. We...
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A Secret Visit
"I wanted to let future generations know the man for what he was, a metaphor of America at a crossroads,...
