Collection Presidential Retreats
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
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Presidential yacht USS Mayflower, pictured in 1909.
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
No sport is more closely tied to the American presidency than baseball. One of Washington’s first baseball fields was lo...
The centennial of President Washington's inauguration heightened the nation's interest in its heroic past, and in 1890 Caroline Scott Harrison lent...
America's presidents have been trying to get away from it all for more than two hundred years and never quite...
The president’s shirts were loose, comfortable, vividly patterned, and tropically bright. They represented a break from the blue-suit, white-shirt fo...
The son of a farmer-doctor, Warren Gamaliel Harding was born in 1865 in Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio. As a boy...
Leaving the White House during the summer is an old tradition of the presidents. Those with farms, such as Dwight...
For the politicians, civil servants, and accompanying citizenry of the new federal government—freshly arrived in 1800 from comfortable, sophisticated Philadelphia—the...
Many presidents have enjoyed the sport of fishing. This pastime provides an opportunity to relax or to enjoy the sportsman’s...
Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, 100 miles from Washington, Camp Rapidan served President Herbert Hoover and First Lady...
One hundred years ago, on August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation to establish the National Park Service, but this was...
One morning in early December 1802 a Federalist senator, just arrived from New Hampshire, was ushered into the President’s House wi...