Table of Contents

The president's house in the early years, 1789-1814; The White House; French taste at its White House zenith, 1817-1829; the Blue Room; the People's President and the Jacksonian era, 1830s-1840s; the Green Room; revivals of the "antique" at mid-century, 1850s-1860s; the Red Room; Renaissance revivals and the aesthetic movement, 1870s-1880s; the East Room; national identity and the colonial revival, 1890s-1950s; the State Dining Room; a collection evolves into a museum -1960s to the present.