White House History
Read Digital EditionForeword, Melvin M. PaynePresident Kennedy's Rose Garden, Rachel Lambert MellonWhite House Album: History in the Camera's Eye, Oliver...
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Read Digital EditionForeword, Melvin M. PaynePresident Kennedy's Rose Garden, Rachel Lambert MellonWhite House Album: History in the Camera's Eye, Oliver...
Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeFrom the White House to River Farm: The Story of the Northeast Gates, Tom UnderwoodThe Ellipse:...
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
Thanksgiving at the White House is a quiet holiday for the presidents family, featuring a meal that traditionally included turkey,...
The White House is 168 feet (51.2 meters) long.The White House is 85 feet 6 inches (26.1 meters) wide without porticoes; 152 feet wide with...
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
August 24, 1944: President Sveinn Björnsson of Iceland paid visits to Arlington National Cemetery, Capitol Hill and Mount Vernon during his b...
Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne....
The inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961 brought to the White House and to the heart of the nation a...
Tucked away on the South Lawn, behind a tall hedge of hollies, is the White House Children’s Garden, a sp...
Nicholas Stefanos “Steve” Vasilakes emigrated from Ligerea, Greece, to the United States in 1910 and soon thereafter set up his hot pean...