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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The sleeping porch prior to construction of the Solarium and the full Third Floor, 1920. It was built by President Taft in 1910.
A dinner at the White House has always had significance beyond the merely gastronomical. The elegance of the State Dining...
During the administration of President Harry S. Truman, the White House underwent a renovation and expansion so extensive, it changed...
The fourteen paintings in this series were commissioned from Peter Waddell beginning in 2004 by the White House Historical Association. It...
One of the principal goals that governed the architectural changes made to the White House in 1902 by McKim, Mead & Whi...
On March 4, 1809, at Washington’s first inaugural ball, one keen local observer recorded that the new first lady, Dolley Payne To...
On July 12, 1957, Dwight D. Eisenhower became the first president in office to employ a helicopter in his transportation service. This...
A house more thoroughly documented than the White House is difficult to imagine. Historians and students of White House history...
Of her family’s role in the White House in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Martha Johnson Patterson, da...
War-hero Ulysses S. Grant, elected after a bitter war and the emotional impeachment of Andrew Johnson, spent two terms in...
On February 12, 1880, a wooden crate arrived at the White House containing a new contrivance which would make an immediate impact...
References to the installation of plumbing fixtures began to appear in architectural plan books in the 1840s. Plumbing systems were...
Thomas Jefferson gave orders for the demolition of the outdoor wooden privy and had two water closets installed upstairs, one...