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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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.
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the merely gastronomical. The elegance of the State Dining...
The holiday season at the White House is celebrated with an abundance of glittering décor, decadent desserts, and fresh p...
The State Dining Room, which now seats as many as 140 guests, was originally much smaller and served at various times...
On March 27, 1952, President and Mrs. Truman returned to a freshly renovated White House after living at Blair House since November 1948....
The Family Dining Room on the State Floor of the White House today is used primarily for smaller formal dinners...
When Whig opponents chanted “Who is James K. Polk?” throughout the presidential election of 1844, it was more an attempt to infl...
Theodore Roosevelt’s remodeling of the White House in 1902 transformed it from a crazy quilt of alterations over time into a...
The presidency of James Knox Polk is underscored, among other things, by the War with Mexico. Amidst a military confrontation...
As part of the implementation of the Truman renovation, the Commission on the Renovation of the Executive Mansion was tasked...
April showers might bring May flowers, but White House florists keep the executive mansion in bloom year round. Today the...
A house more thoroughly documented than the White House is difficult to imagine. Historians and students of White House history...
The White House Historical Association has reset the following excerpt of Isabella Hagner’s typescript memoirs, now in the White Ho...