Collection Dining in the Executive Mansion
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the merely gastronomical. The elegance of the State Dining...
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The Family Dining Room,
Nixon Administration, 1971.
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the merely gastronomical. The elegance of the State Dining...
During the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the White House underwent a renovation and expansion so extensive, it changed...
Though presidential personalities and policies can generate deep chasms during their term of service, the death of a president evokes...
Stained glass, a medieval art, was revisited in the historically retrospective nineteenth century. The art was a prominent feature of...
In the summer of 1864, Kentuckian John Bullock called upon President Abraham Lincoln at the White House to make a personal...
From its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth and into the early twentieth century, the historic preservation movement in the United States...
On a cold March 11, 1809, Thomas Jefferson paid the ferryman $1 to take him and his carriage across the Potomac River at...
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 4, 1809, at Washington’s first inaugural ball, one keen local observer recorded that the new first lady, Dolley Payne To...
Shortly before Mordechai Booth fled the capital on Wednesday, August 24, 1814, he rode over to the President’s House to see wh...
When on March 4, 1817, James Monroe was inaugurated as the fifth president of the United States, the District of Columbia still...
Through its long years, the White House has seen many renovations, including the most recent one that was almost total....