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11 de jul. de 2023 · She is the author of The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families (2000, 2014), and The Living White House (2007, 2013, 2017) and was managing editor of the 23rd edition of The White House: An Historic Guide. William G. Allman is the former curator of the White House, having retired from the office in 2017 after forty years.
For 200 years the White House has served as the residence of our nation's president and his family. John and Abigail Adams were the first residents, and each family ever since has been able to make the White House a comfortable home and to acquire the necessities for handsomely carrying out its additional functions as nexus for state ceremony and entertaining.
FOREWORD: The First Ladies 8 INTRODUCTION: Wendell Garrett (1929-2012) 10 PREFACE: Betty C. Monkman 13 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 17 ONE THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSE IN THE EARLY YEARS, 1789-1814 George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison 19 THE WHITE HOUSE From Design to Destruction, 1793-1814 49 TWO FRENCH TASTE AT ITS WHITE HOUSE ZENITH, 1817-29 James Monroe, John Quincy Adams 53 THE BLUE ...
Product Information. For 200 years the White House has served as the residence of our nation's president and his family. John and Abigail Adams were the first residents, and each family ever since has been able to make the White House a comfortable home and to acquire the necessities for handsomely carrying out its additional functions as nexus for state ceremony and entertaining.
Bruce also photographs the Diplomatic Reception Rooms of the Department of State, as well as other iconic and historic D.C. homes such as Tudor Place, Blair House and Hillwood Estate Museum & Gardens. You can view his work for The White House in these official publications: The White House: Its Historic Furnishings & First Families. White House ...
In 1960, President and Mrs. Eisenhower accepted a donation of early 19th century American federal furniture for the Diplomatic Reception Room. This was the first successful attempt to furnish a White House room in the period of its earliest occupancy, and set the precedent of obtaining a museum-quality collection of furnishings for the White House.
