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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President Harry S. Truman and First Lady Bess Wallace Truman fishing from the boat "Big Wheel" off Key West, Florida while on vacation, December 2, 1949.
Presidents have found different ways to escape the pressures and politics of the position. For early leaders, it was a...
President Harry S. Truman was close to his friends and associates, had a grin for strangers, but could be less...
Every year since 1981, the White House Historical Association has had the privilege of designing the Official White House Christmas Ornament....
The origin of the "American Presidents" by Genevieve Ryan Bellaire is somewhat unique. One year, Genevieve's father asked her to...
NUMBERS 1 THROUGH 6 (COLLECTION I) WHITE HOUSE HISTORY • NUMBER 1 1 — Foreword by Melvin M. Payne 5 — President Kennedy’s Rose Garden by Rachel Lambert...
JAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is the Executive Director of the Lewes Historical Society in Lewes, Delaware. His publications include JANSEN, JANSEN...
2022 2022 American Best Book Award Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration and Its Legacy, Finalist, Best Cover Design: Nonfiction How...
AuthorsJAMES ARCHER ABBOTT is a graduate of Vassar College (B.A.) and the State University of New York’s Museum St...
Read Digital VersionForeword, William SealeFrom the White House to the Piedmont and Back: Theodore Roosevelt’s Intrepid Ride, Clifford KrainikFinding th...
When John Adams first occupied the President's House in 1800, the Second Floor was generally reserved for private and family use....
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...
Ascending from the Ground Floor Corridor, a marble stairway leads the White House visitor to the State Floor level. Off...