Collection President Truman's Renovation
During the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the White House underwent a renovation and expansion so extensive, it changed...
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President and Mrs. Polk purchased this Louis XV style sofa for Polk Place in 1848. The purchase of the Philadelphia-made furniture was made through Alexander Stewart’s shop in New York City. This fine furnishing was barely used by Polk before his untimely death from cholera just three months after leaving office.
During the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the White House underwent a renovation and expansion so extensive, it changed...
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A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the merely gastronomical. The elegance of the State Dining...
Often referred to as the first "dark horse" president, James K. Polk was the last of the Jacksonians to sit...
Born in 1803, Sarah Childress grew up on a plantation near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Elder daughter of a Captain, she gained something...
"I detest him so much that I don't even think his wife is beautiful," said one of President Grover Cleveland's...
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One of the principal goals that governed the architectural changes made to the White House in 1902 by McKim, Mead & Wh...
Of her family’s role in the White House in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Martha Johnson Patterson, da...
After ascending the staircase from the Ground Floor to the State Floor, the first room that visitors on a tour...
For over 75 years, George Peter Alexander Healy’s portrait of Abraham Lincoln has remained an important aesthetic element for the Wh...
After the destruction of the White House by the British in 1814, the Executive Mansion was reconstructed with a servants’ hall di...