White House Tour
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
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The Presidential Libraries
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White House Ghost Stories
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Death and the White House
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Winter Holidays and the White House
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Reading Lists & Bibliography
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