The Ground Floor
The white marble walls of the Ground Floor corridor complement the vaulted ceiling arching gracefully overhead. Architect James Hoban installed...
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The white marble walls of the Ground Floor corridor complement the vaulted ceiling arching gracefully overhead. Architect James Hoban installed...
The Blue Room with the Yellow Oval Room above and the Diplomatic Reception Room below it, form the most elegant...
The Cross Hall and large Entrance Hall are at the center of the original plan by James Hoban for the...
Ascending from the Ground Floor Corridor, a marble stairway leads the White House visitor to the State Floor level. Off...
The White House Historical Association and presidential libraries, historic homes, and museums have a shared goal of providing access to...
President Andrew Jackson was a slaveholder who brought a large household of slave domestics with him from Tennessee to the...
Jon Meacham is a Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian. A contributing writer for The New York Times Book Review and a...
1862-1863: Mary Todd Lincoln, grieving over her son Willies death in February, began to participate in spirit circles or seances...
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No sport created more excitement, enthusiasm and interest in the colonial period and the early republic than horse racing. Presidents...
Enslaved labor was not limited to plantations. Painters, cabinetmakers, blacksmiths, sculptors, and craftsmen in the early United States relied on...
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