Did Slaves Build the White House?
Construction on the President's House began in 1792 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far...
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The James S. Brady Press Briefing Room.
Construction on the President's House began in 1792 in Washington, D.C., a new capital situated in sparsely settled region far...
The white marble walls of the Ground Floor corridor complement the vaulted ceiling arching gracefully overhead. Architect James Hoban installed...
Construction on the President’s House began in 1792. The decision to place the capital on land ceded by two slave st...
James Hoban's life is a memorable Irish-American success story. In his boyhood he learned the craft of carpenter and wheelwright,...
In 1791, working with George Washington, artist and engineer Pierre Charles L'Enfant prepared a city plan for Washington, D.C., reserving...
The first bath tubs in the White House were portable and made of tin; water was hauled in buckets. Running...
Pierre Charles L'Enfant selected the site for the President's House and proposed a grand palace four times larger than the...
President John Adams first occupied the Presidents House on November 1, 1800. It stood for thirteen years and eight months until it...
Following a competition for the design of the President's House in the spring of 1792, Irish architect James Hoban was commissioned...
White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...
Oscar De Priest’s election to Congress as a Republican representative from Chicago in 1928 created an interesting political and social di...
The son of an enslaved woman and an unknown white man, Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born into slavery in 1818...