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Official Residences Around the World by Abby Clouse-Radigan This survey of the official residences and offices of some fifty nations...
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Official Residences Around the World by Abby Clouse-Radigan This survey of the official residences and offices of some fifty nations...
Louis L. Picone is the award-winning author of Grant's Tomb: The Epic Death of Ulysses S. Grant and the Making...
A group of physicians and surgeons meeting in Washington 1891 was treated to a reception at the White House on the...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
In 1802, Congress granted the citizenry of the District of Columbia limited local government and James Hoban served on the twelve-member...
The Blue Room with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, form the most elegant...
When John Adams first occupied the President's House in 1800, the Second Floor was generally reserved for private and family use....
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
Animals -- whether pampered household pets, working livestock, birds, squirrels, or strays -- have long been a major part of...
Massee McKinley’s paternal descendant is the 25th U.S. President William McKinley. He is the great-great nephew of McKinley. Mc...
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's 1803 drawing of the State Floor indicates that the Red Room served as "the President's Antechamber" for the...
John Quincy Adams hired Antoine Michel Giusta as his valet after they met in Belgium in 1814. Giusta was a deserter...