It was designed by James Hoban and George Washington to be a "Public Audience Room” according to the White House Historical Association. It’s where dances, receptions, concerts and press ...

President George Washington selected the site for ... The White House has 132 rooms, according to the White House Historical Association. The ground floor features the Family Theater, Library ...

“While President George Washington selected the site and approved the design, he never actually lived in the White House,” the White House Historical Association’s website says. “He ended ...

Monkman, a former White ... from George Washington University in 1980. Her survivors include a sister. Ms. Monkman was the author of books including “The White House: Its Historic Furnishings ...

The oval shape dates back to President George Washington's practice of holding levees, formal greeting receptions inspired by English court, according to the White House Historical Association.

That’s what the first President of the United States, George Washington, did in 1789, according to the White House Historical Association. Organizers had forgotten to bring a Bible to the ...

President George Washington selected the site for ... according to the White House Historical Association. The ground floor features the Family Theater, Library, Vermeil Room, East Garden Room ...

The inaugural address of the nation’s first president, George Washington in 1789 ... McLaurin is president of the White House Historical Association, a private nonprofit, nonpartisan ...

In 1789, when George Washington was sworn in for ... to have his inaugural broadcast nationally by radio. The White House Historical Association estimates his 1925 address reached more than ...

According to the White House Historical Association, George Washington began the tradition In 1789, when he borrowed a Bible from a Masonic Lodge to take his oath as the first president of the ...