Foreword; White House History Number 29
Special spaces at the White House are usually those created by the presidents for their own use while resident there....
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View of the Grand Staircase leading from the entrance Hall to the second floor living quarters of the White House, August 4, 1952. During the renovation the stairway was redesigned so that it would open onto the Entrance Hall for greater ceremonial effect.
Special spaces at the White House are usually those created by the presidents for their own use while resident there....
Although today's mailboxes are filled with magazines, catalogs, and bills, they lack an abundance of personal letters. The technologies of...
By the summer of 1951 most interior partitions were complete. Service areas were modern and functional, bearing no visible similarity to...
On the evening of March 27, 1952, in a small ceremony at the entrance door, President Truman received a gold key to...
As skilled craftsmen molded the raw materials into finished floors, walls, and ceilings, Abbie Rowe captured on film the contributions...
Abbie Rowe's photographs captured the drama of the interior space as floors were removed to reveal levels above and below....
To provide solid support for the interior walls, crews poured 126 new reinforced concrete support columns to a depth of 25 feet....
Abbie Rowe's photographs of the Truman renovation of the White House form a unique and invaluable visual record of one...
"The damned place is haunted, sure as shootin. . . . You and Margie had better come back and protect me before some...
The East Room draws tourists in the 1890s, during the second Cleveland administration, to admire the "New Grecian" decorations that...