The East Room
Ascending from the Ground Floor Corridor, a marble stairway leads the White House visitor to the State Floor level. Off...
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Ascending from the Ground Floor Corridor, a marble stairway leads the White House visitor to the State Floor level. Off...
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
The Blue Room with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, form the most elegant...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
When John Adams first occupied the President's House in 1800, the Second Floor was generally reserved for private and family use....
Clifton Truman Daniel is the oldest grandson of President Harry S. Truman and his wife, Bess. He is the son...
The Cross Hall and large Entrance Hall are at the center of the original plan by James Hoban for the...
James Hoban, the original architect of the President's House, intended that the space now called the "Green Room" be used...
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...
No sport created more excitement, enthusiasm and interest in the colonial period and the early republic than horse racing. Presidents...
Many modern presidents have had a casual interest in horseback riding, particularly as a vacation sport. However, no modern president...
After the Civil War, the nation's capital became a magnet for foreign diplomats and people who had made fortunes in...