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The White House As An American Home
Acanthus Press
September 2009
On Sale: September 1, 2009
312 pages
ISBN: 0926494651
EAN: 9780926494657
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Today it s the most famous building in the world,
recognizable to millions as a symbol of the American
presidency. But the White House was not always an iconic
monument it was first an American home. From 1800 until
1960, the president s house kept pace with changing ideals
of the perfect American house and garden. It began as George
Washington s dream of a country estate; a century later,
when robber-baron palaces came into fashion, it became the
imperial seat of the larger-than-life Theodore Roosevelt. In
the 1950s, Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower enjoyed the
middle-class life in the capital city, barbequing on the
roof of the curving south portico. That ended when
Jacqueline Kennedy redecorated the White House as a museum
to upper-class taste.Dream House: The White House as an
American Home looks at the president s house in the context
of American house design and decoration. Hundreds of
historic photographs, plans, and drawings compare the
president s residence to other American houses, gardens, and
interiors, showing the White House as it changed through
decades of interior renovation, rebuilding, and landscaping.
The nation s finest decorators, garden designers,
architects, and retailers Herter Brothers, Sister Parish,
Beatrix Farrand, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., and McKim, Mead
& White helped first families realize personal, and yet
always American, dreams of how presidents should live.As
Americans we think we know the White House, from the Red,
Green, and Blue rooms to the Oval Office. What we know is
only part of a much bigger story . . .
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