Table of Content
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 ROOM 77 THREE THE PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT AND THE JACKSONIAN ERA, 1830s-40s Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk 81 THE GREEN ROOM 107 FOUR REVIVALS OF THE "ANTIQUE" AT MID-CENTURY, 1850s-60s Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson 111 THE RED ROOM 139 FIVE RENAISSANCE REVIVALS AND THE AESTHETIC MOVEMENT, 1870s-1890s Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley 143 THE EAST ROOM 181 SIX NATIONAL IDENTITY AND THE COLONIAL REVIVAL, 1900-1950s Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower 185 THE STATE DINING ROOM 229 SEVEN MUSEM EVOLVES FROM A COLLECTION John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald W. Reagan, George H.W. Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama 233 IMPORTANT ACQUISITIONS, 1961-2014 267 ENDNOTES 273 CATALOG OF OBJECTS: William G. Allman 279 Picture Credits 312 Bibliography 313 Index 315
