white house history: collection set 4
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A compilation of issues 19 through 25 of the White House History journal.TRANSCRIPT
White House
HISTORYCOLLECTION 4, NUMBERS 19 THROUGH 25
White House History (ISSN 0748-8114) features articles on the
historic White House, especially those related to the building itself and
life as lived there through the years. The views presented by the authors
are theirs and do not necessarily reflect the position or policy
of the White House Historical Association.
The White House Historical Association is a nonprofit organization,
chartered on November 3, 1961, to enhance understanding, appreciation,
and enjoyment of the historic White House. Income from the sale of
White House History and all the Association’s books and guides
is returned to the publications program and is used as well to
acquire historical furnishings and memorabilia for the White House.
Address inquiries to: White House Historical Association,
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www.whitehousehistory.org
Opposite: Plasterwork (detail) at Belcamp House in Dublin, Ireland. Its owner,
Sir Edward Newenham, was inspired by the American Revolution, and built the first monument to
George Washington on the Belcamp House grounds in 1778. Sir Edward corresponded with both
President Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
C Copyright 2010 by the White House Historical Association.
ISBN 978-1-931917-09-4
Library of Congress Number 2009939895
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Printed in China.
Foreword
The fourth volume in the collections of articles from White House History,
the journal of the White House Historical Association includes thirty-nine articles from
seven issues. They vary from biographical articles to various focus pieces on aspects of
life in and the operations of the White House.
Our celebration of President Lincoln’s 200th year is in our two issues on his life
and presidency. Both are included here. Notable in these issues are heretofore unpub-
lished—and only recently found—photographs of the White House in Lincoln’s time.
They are very rare, giving us glimpses as through windows heretofore unknown, on the
presidential enclave during the Civil War. Not always easy to pin down as to their
precise dates, they fascinate us because of the details they show of a particular time
while in the midst the White House is so unchanged.
The biographical articles also surround the White House years of President
Eisenhower, who maintained a White House painting studio and pursued his oils
devotedly. We also visit his childhood home, which was restored and made central to his
presidential library in Abilene, Kansas, with his approval. The original architect of the
White House, James Hoban, was given an entire issue, which is reprinted here. His role
in the creation of the White House for George Washington was celebrated in Ireland
and America, on the 250th anniversary of his birth. Articles from both countries explore
his architecture and the architecture of Ireland that may have influenced him.
We visit the White House stables, which flourished during the first century of
the White House. The kitchens are not overlooked in seven articles on the kitchens and
presidential appetites. And we offer a series of articles on flowers, flower gardens, and
floral decorations for state dinners and White House weddings, a special subject in
White House life that began in about 1859, when the then-customary artificial wax
flowers were removed and fresh flowers first introduced to White House vases. Old
worries about flowers thinning the oxygen in the air and causing sickness seem at that
time to have been discarded. The White House has been filled with flowers ever since.
William Seale
Editor, White House History
Opposite:
The Monroe
Plateau (detail)
in the State
Dining Room is
surrounded by a
balustrade featur-
ing classical
figures balanced
on spheres atop
plinths, with
reclining
Bacchantes on
either side.
Denière et
Matelin, Paris,
c. 1817.
WHITE HOUSE
H ISTORYCOLLECTION 4, NUMBERS 19 THROUGH 25
PRESIDENTIAL HORSES • NUMBER 19
8 Foreword William Seale
10 Presidents as Horsemen William B. Bushong
26 Arlington’s Ceremonial Horses and Funerals at the White House Claire A. Faulkner
46 Andrew Jackson’s Constitution Carriage Marsha Mullin
56 Ten Notable Horses Gwendolyn K. White
WHITE HOUSE KITCHENS AND COOKING • NUMBER 20
64 Foreword William Seale
66 Kitchen Past: Thoughts on Open Hearth Cooking for the Presidents Alice Ross
72 A Look at the White House Kitchens Lydia Barker Tederick
92 My White House Years Roland Mesnier
112 Preparation of the Menu for the Prince of Wales Dinner in 2005 Cristeta Comerford
126 White House Wines Daniel Shanks
134 Home Cooking in the White House Barbara Haber
146 A Bit of Architectural History Comes In from the Cold William G. Allman
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER’S WHITE HOUSE • NUMBER 21
154 Foreword William Seale
156 Dwight David Eisenhower: The First Television President Martha Joynt Kumar
170 “She’s Making Maturity Glamorous”: Edith Mayo
Mamie Eisenhower’s White House Style
182 President Eisenhower: Painter Sister Wendy Beckett
192 The Eisenhower Family Home in Abilene, Kansas Dennis Medina
202 “Proud Housewife”: Mamie Eisenhower Collects for the White House Melissa Naulin
220 “In the Goodness of Time”: Creating the Dwight David Eisenhower Room Candace S. Shireman
at Blair House
230 Discovered: An Unknown Brady Portrait of President James K. Polk Clifford Krainik
and Members of His Cabinet
JAMES HOBAN: ARCHITECT OF THE WHITE HOUSE • NUMBER 22
236 Foreword William Seale
238 James Hoban: Builder of the White House William Seale
252 “The Second City in the British Dominions”: Dublin in the Holger Hoock
Later Eighteenth Century
266 White House Irish Counterparts Desmond Guinness
282 Imagining James Hoban: Portraits of a Master Builder William B. Bushong
292 George Washington’s Bow Window: A Lost Fragment of White House Edward Lawler Jr.
Precedence Comes to Light in Philadelphia
296 Four Places in Hoban’s Dublin: A Twenty-First Century Photographer’s View Bruce White
WHITE HOUSE FLOWERS: EMBELLISHING THE PRESIDENT’S TABLE • NUMBER 23
324 Foreword William Seale
326 First Lady Edith Kermit Roosevelt’s “Colonial Garden” at the Mac Keith Griswold
White House
340 James Monroe’s White House Plateau: Melissa Naulin
“A perfect riot of festooned railings and graceful figures”
356 Flowers for the President’s Table: State Dining Room Splendor Nancy Clarke
370 White House Brides and Envisioned Flowers: Margaret Huddy
Two Nineteenth-Century White House Weddings
With an Album of other White House Brides
382 “The Most Beautiful Things”: Gifts from France in the Roosevelt
White House Amy Verone
LIFE IN THE LINCOLN WHITE HOUSE: PART ONE • NUMBER 24
390 Foreword William Seale
392 Tad Lincoln and His Tutor Alexander Williamson Elizabeth Smith
Brownstein
402 Music in Lincoln’s White House Elise K. Kirk
414 Photographs of the Lincoln White House Lydia Tederick
432 A Gallery of Individuals, Major and Minor, from
Lincoln’s Time in the White House
444 The Locomotive Tea Set: A Gift from France John H. White Jr.
LIFE IN THE LINCOLN WHITE HOUSE: PART TW0 • NUMBER 25
450 Foreword William Seale
452 Abraham Lincoln’s White House Harold Holzer
466 The Other White House William Seale
490 The White House and Lincoln’s Assassination Anthony S. Pitch
504 The Lincoln Bedroom: Refurbishing a Famous William G. Allman
White House Room
512 Photographs of Indian Delegates in the Clifford Krainik and
President’s “Summer House” Michele Krainik
518 About the Authors
520 Index