Our Changing White House
Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995. Hardcover. Pine green cloth, gilt letters on spine, gilt decoration on front cover, beige and color illus. dust jacket, 250 pp., BW and color illus. VG. Item #153834
ISBN: 1555532225
A collection of 10 illustrated essays exploring various aspects of America's Presidential palace. Essays are: The White House: plans realized and unrealized / William Seale -- Crafted from stone / Lee H. Nelson -- Social seasons and rituals of entertainment / Barbara G. Carson -- Decorated in the most splendid manner: art in the White House / William Kloss -- Furniture and interiors: change and continuity / Betty C. Monkman -- Furnishing the executive mansion: nineteenth-century Washington sources / William G. Allman -- The landscape of the President's House: garden of democracy / Suzanne Turner -- McKim's renovations: American Renaissance and imperial presidency / Richard Guy Wilson -- Serving those who serve: White House workers / Marjorie A. Hunt -- Epilogue: Caring for the White House today / Gary Walters.
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