The Second Floor
When John Adams first occupied the President's House in 1800, the Second Floor was generally reserved for private and family use....
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When John Adams first occupied the President's House in 1800, the Second Floor was generally reserved for private and family use....
The Blue Room with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, form the most elegant...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealePresident Grover Cleveland's Goodwill Tour of 1887, John H. White Jr."Off for the Ditch": Theodore and...
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...
White House staff who lived at the President’s House during the nineteenth century, including enslaved and free African Americans, us...
1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...
Read Digital EditionForeword, William SealeThe Man Who Came to Dinner at the White House: Alexander Woollcott Visits the Roosevelts, Mary...
In 1802, Congress granted the citizenry of the District of Columbia limited local government and James Hoban served on the twelve-member...
The whole family [of President Theodore Roosevelt] were fiends when it came to reading. No newspapers. Never a moment was...
Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century....