An Essay on "The Confidant" by Peter Waddell
President Rutherford B. Hayes announced when he was elected that he would serve for one term only; this he did,...
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Fine & Decorative Arts
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An Artist Visits the White House Past
The fourteen paintings in this series were commissioned from Peter Waddell beginning in 2004 by the White House Historical Association. It...
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An Essay on "A Bird that Whistles" by Peter Waddell
President Thomas Jefferson took office on the then-inauguration day of March 4, 1801, following a party win in the contentious campaign of...
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An Essay on "The Splendid Mrs. Madison" by Peter Waddell
The most famous hostess in the history of the White House was Dolley Madison, a lady in whom legend and...
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An Essay on "A Vision Takes Form" by Peter Waddell
At this stage in the construction of the White House, 1796, the walls are rising above the second floor level. They...
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An Essay on "Lafayette Square" by Peter Waddell
Peter Waddell's painting re-creates the historic square north of the White House in 1902, the year Theodore Roosevelt remodeled the house....
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An Essay on "Something Blue" by Peter Waddell
The most distinctive of the state interiors in the White House is the Blue Room. Located central in the plan,...
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An Essay on "Composition in Red and Gold" by Peter Waddell
The Red Room was the only complete interior Tiffany created for the White House. Redesigned in high aesthetic taste (meaning...
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A Neighbor Returns More Than a Cup of Sugar
Recently, White House neighbors on Lafayette Square shared a fascinating surprise. In October 2008, Decatur House, an historic property of the...
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A Portrait of Spanish Conquistador Hernan Corte's
Late in James K. Polk’s presidency, his wife Sarah Childress Polk received an unusual gift that implicitly equated expansionism wi...
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Photographs of the Lincoln White House
Abraham Lincoln assumed the office of president of the United States on March 4, 1861, an innovative period for photography. He was...
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Dressing Down for the Presidency
The new British minister to the United States was outraged. Within a few weeks of Minister Anthony Merry’s arrival in...