African Americans in Lafayette Square, 1795-1965
The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...
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The casket of General Miles arrives at Saint John’s Church, May 1925. His state funeral was one of many held at Saint John’s.
The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...
To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
For more than two hundred years, Lafayette Square has been home to a wide variety of historical figures, from diplomats...
In 1821-1822, Susan Decatur requested the construction of a service wing. The first floor featured a large kitchen, dining room,...
The White House observance of Christmas before the twentieth century was not an official event. First families decorated the house...
In 1816, Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr. and his wife Susan moved to the nascent capital city of Washington, D.C. With...
From the beginning of its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior...
In this special episode of The 1600 Sessions, financier and philanthropist David Rubenstein interviews White House Historical Association President Stewart McLaurin...
For more than a century, thousands of Americans have gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House to exercise...
Since the James Madison presidency, St. John’s Church has been an important part of the life of Lafayette Square an...
For two hundred years, Decatur House has stood as a near neighbor to the White House across Lafayette Square. Stewart...