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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A mahogany coat rack, now in the collection of the James K. Polk Ancestral Home.
During the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the White House underwent a renovation and expansion so extensive, it changed...
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the merely gastronomical. The elegance of the State Dining...
As part of the implementation of the Truman renovation, the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion was tasked...
Of her family’s role in the White House in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Martha Johnson Patterson, da...
James Knox Polk was at home in Columbia, Tennessee, when he judged that it was about time to find out...
When Whig opponents chanted “Who is James K. Polk?” throughout the presidential election of 1844, it was more an attempt to infl...
The Solarium on the Third Floor has been called the “The Camp David of the White House.”1 With its floor-to-ceiling wind...
On March 27, 1952, President and Mrs. Truman returned to a freshly renovated White House after living at Blair House since November 1948....
On Christmas Eve 1929 the White House experienced its most powerful fire since the British torched the Executive Mansion 115 years earlier....
While not as famous as the presidents they served, several African American slaves who lived inside the White House went...
“It is of very great importance to fix the taste of our Country properly, and I think your Example will go...
In addition to important holdings in historical memorabilia, art, and furnishings, the White House collection also has an archives o...