Empire Guest Room, Kennedy Administration
This photograph is of the Empire Guest Room after First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy's renovation of the White House beginning in 1961. The guest room is located on the Third Floor of the White House. The room was redecorated with a sleigh bed believed to have belonged to John Quincy Adams, an Empire chest of drawers, a mirrored dressing chest, and a worktable. The walls were upholstered in red and white print, a contemporary version of the French early 19th-century Toile De Jouy pattern. This pattern, originally entitled "Hommage à Franklin," depicts scenes from the life and career of Benjamin Franklin and is partially based on a drawing in the White House Collection called "The Genius of Franklin" by French artist Jean-Honore Fragonard.
- Photographer
- Bates Littlehales
- Date of Work
- April 1962
- Type
- Photograph
- Credit
- White House Historical Association
