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...
State Dining Room
- Photographer
- Frances Benjamin Johnston
- Date of Work
- c. 1893
- Medium
- Photo
- Credit
- Library of Congress
State Dining Room
This photograph of the State Dining Room by Frances Benjamin Johnston was taken in 1893 after its redecoration by Edgar Yergason during the Benjamin Harrison administration. In 1891, electricity was installed, though there are remnants of Louis Comfort Tiffany's redecoration from a
decade before, including light fixtures, hammered silver backed gas wall brackets, and low-back oak chairs. The four walnut side tables lining the walls were placed there in 1867 and would remain there for nearly fifty years.
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