Collection The President's Neighborhood
Since the White House was first occupied by President John Adams in 1800, influential people and organizations—or those who hoped to...
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Small sketches of Saint John’s Church included in a letter from Benjamin Henry Latrobe to his son Henry, June 4, 1817.
Since the White House was first occupied by President John Adams in 1800, influential people and organizations—or those who hoped to...
From its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior of the White...
Chester Alan Arthur's beloved "Nell" died of pneumonia on January 12, 1880. That November, when he was elected vice president, he was...
James Knox Polk was at home in Columbia, Tennessee, when he judged that it was about time to find out...
When James and Dolley Madison moved to the White House officially on March 4, 1809, they were accompanied by her son Payne...
Stained glass, a medieval art, was revisited in the historically retrospective nineteenth century. The art was a prominent feature of...
Dolley Madison died at her house on Lafayette Square on July 12, 1849. She was eighty-one. By that age she was one...
In November 1845, Elizabeth Lord Cogswell Dixon arrived for the “season” in Washington, D.C., with her family. Her husband, James Dixo...
Paul Jennings was born in 1799 at Montpelier, the Virginia estate of James and Dolley Madison. His mother, a slave of...
Britain's navy began its war in North Atlantic waters with a crushing advantage over the United States in numbers of...
Our interest in the surroundings of the White House extends in this issue to include both public and private places,...