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  Collection Presidential Retreats

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• An Introduction to "Away From the White House"

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• Hoover's Retreat: Rapidan Camp

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• Calvin Coolidge's Indelible Vacation to the Black Hills

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• The Soldiers' Home: First Presidential Retreat

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• "A Journey into Nowhere"

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  Gallery Presidential Vacations & Retreats

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  Photo Old Soldiers' Home

  The "Old Soldiers' Home," a stereographic slide inaccurately dated 1863. The piazza seen here was extended from the original probably around 1880.

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  Photo Restoration of the Soldiers' Home

  The piazza is returned to its earlier appearance, confirmed as being this way at least in the earliest part of...

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  Photo Presidental Vacations & Retreats: President George H.W. Bush at Walker's Point

  The walls in President George H.W. Bush's private office at Walker's Point in Maine, seen here in 2004, was a...