A Small Slice of Kennedy Decor: The Queens’ Sitting Room
Although the legacy of Jacqueline Kennedy’s interior decoration at the White House is fixed in Americans’ minds, there seems to b...
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Although the legacy of Jacqueline Kennedy’s interior decoration at the White House is fixed in Americans’ minds, there seems to b...
The most distinctive of the state interiors in the White House is the Blue Room. Located central in the plan,...
President Thomas Jefferson took office on the then-inauguration day of March 4, 1801, following a party win in the contentious campaign of...
Dawn breaks over the White House stables on March 4, 1873. The grooms and coachmen are up early to prepare for President...
Peter Waddell's painting re-creates the historic square north of the White House in 1902, the year Theodore Roosevelt remodeled the house....
The Red Room was the only complete interior Tiffany created for the White House. Redesigned in high aesthetic taste (meaning...
At this stage in the construction of the White House, 1796, the walls are rising above the second floor level. They...
WASHINGTON, Sunday—I must go back to tell you something of what has been going on the last few days, fo...
Late in James K. Polk’s presidency, his wife Sarah Childress Polk received an unusual gift that implicitly equated expansionism wi...
Recently, White House neighbors on Lafayette Square shared a fascinating surprise. In October 2008, Decatur House, an historic property of the...
An issue about the White House and the West naturally draws one’s attention to the expansionism experienced during Jefferson’s ad...
In 1949, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt sat for her portrait in Douglas Chandor’s New York studio. Seventeen years later, The Wh...