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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Sculptor Ferdinand J. Bruyninck with an example of his work, the ornamental plaster seal to be placed over the doorway to the Blue Room, September 14, 1951.
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the merely gastronomical. The elegance of the State Dining...
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
From its construction in 1792, until the 1902 renovation that shaped the modern identity and functions of the interior of the White...
During the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the White House underwent a renovation and expansion so extensive, it changed...
The Eisenhower Family Home is located in the heart of the Midwest—Abilene, Kansas—and is part of the complex know...
Papal visits to the White House have been rare—with Pope Francis' recent visit, just three popes in history have vi...
During the 1850s Japan gradually began to discard its isolationist foreign policy of sakoku (“locked country”) and began opening some of i...
Neil W. Horstman retired this spring, thus ending a distinguished career with the White House Historical Association. He led the...
President Grover Cleveland was ill-prepared for the American sovereigns’ (as he referred to the public) fascination with his soon-to-be-bride when he...
In November 1845, Elizabeth Lord Cogswell Dixon arrived for the “season” in Washington, D.C., with her family. Her husband, James Dixo...
James Knox Polk was at home in Columbia, Tennessee, when he judged that it was about time to find out...
When on March 4, 1817, James Monroe was inaugurated as the fifth president of the United States, the District of Columbia still...