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SHORTLY AFTER 1890 massive furniture wos the style of White House dining IN 1901, the kitchen, although spotless, was a bit cluttered, according to present
room furnishings. The electric chandelier was considered "elegant" at this time. standards. The table at left was prepared for a servants' meal when picture was made.
DEFEATED IN 1899, this plan nevertheless was instrumentol in creation of the Fine Arts Commission
Artists and architects organized to resist it. The structure across the foreground is a greenhouse
JUNE 2, 1885, is on important date in White House history. On
that day, Miss Frances Folsom of Buffalo and President Cleveland
AGITATION IN 1923 for a new White House resulted in this prize-winning design by Lee Rombotis,
were married. It was the only presidential wedding held there.
a
California architect. Although it was well liked, nothing ever came of it. South side is shown.
But even a year later, when President
considered unhealthy and sinful. Andrew
Meanwhile, the White House was being
new color schemes, decorating and re-
John Adams and his wife moved in, many
Jackson, the fiery-tempered man of the
improved rapidly. Spring water was
decorating, foundations and supporting
walls remained unplastered and the roof
people, branded the tubs "undemocratic
piped in from Franklin Square. Gas
walls cut for pipes, heating ducts and
leaked. When Thomas Jefferson took
and removed them in 1829.
lights came in '48. The Lincolns had
electric wiring. The stables and all other
over in 1801, the house still was un-
In a single night in August, 1814,
central heating. Later came city water,
outbuildings eventually were removed
finished. Wooden steps led to doorways
Hoban saw much of his work destroyed.
electricity, telephones, real bathrooms
and the grounds. which had shrunk to
and the nearest drinking water was
a
The invading British burned the man-
In fact, the Executive Mansion was
their present 14 acres, were landscaped
spring two blocks away. The building
sion. Repairing the damage was a five-
befitting the name when President Cleve-
and fenced.
already had cost $333,207.
year job and cost $249,490. A few years
land married Frances Folsom there in
The house had suffered badly. Even
It was under those conditions that the
later, Hoban built the south portico for
1886. He was the only President to be
Lincoln, nearly 40 years before, had re-
first White House baby was born. The
$18,000 and the north portico for $25,000
married in the house, but perhaps the
ferred to it as "this damned old house.
mother was Martha Randolph, hostess
and finished and furnished the east
marriage of President Grant's daughter
Now the constantly increasing executive
for Jefferson, her widowed father.
room for $25,000 more.
Nellie to Algernon Sartoris in 1874 and
staff and the wear and tear made exten-
During the next few years, considerable
The Nation had almost $1 million
Alice Roosevelt's marriage to Nicholas
sive renovation imperative. Theodore
work was done to both house and grounds.
invested in the mansion when Hoban
Longworth in 1906 were more brilliant
Roosevelt was in office when Congress
Many outbuildings, as well as market
died, December 8. 1831, at 73. He is
social occasions.
appropriated $465,000 for the work.
houses which stood in Lafayette Park,
buried in a simply marked grave in
Cleveland also was the only President
There was the usual controversy. An
or President's Square, were removed
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
to become a father while in the White
entirely new building was advocated and
Then, as now, White House changes
The first White House death was that
House. His daughter Esther was born
one group suggested Meridian Hill as the
brought public criticism and Dolly Madi-
of President William Henry Harrison in
there.
site. Roosevelt insisted the original
son probably caused the first stir when
1841 only a month after he took office.
By 1900, the mansion had been occu-
structure should be retained, however,
she designated certain rooms for bathing
Mrs. John Tyler died there in 1842, Pres-
pied by 23 families. Each had left its
"for the same reasons we keep Mount
'and installed bathtubs, or reasonable
ident Zachary Taylor in 1850 and
mark. Changes upon changes had been
Vernon as it originally was."
facsimiles. Bathing too regularly was
Abraham Lincoln's son Willie in 1862.
made-a partition here, a door
tereservation
on Page 6)
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