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The Paul Robeson House is an Official Project of Save America's Treasures public-private partnership between the White House Millennium Council and the National Trust for Historic Preservation of our nation's irreplaceable historic and cultural treasures for future generations. [6] It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2000. [6]
Save America's Treasures (SAT) was established by Executive Order 13072 in February 1998 by President Bill Clinton, in conjunction with the White House Millennium Council's activities. Instrumental in its founding was then First Lady of the United States Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The tunnel connecting the White House to the open areaway of the Treasury Building was excavated to allow the president's evacuation from one building to the other without the need to make the crossing outdoors. [5] [6] [8] Efforts to protect the secrecy of the East Wing bunker and the White House to Treasury Building tunnel were largely fruitless.
Bummer, George. Our nation's very first president, George Washington, picked the site for the White House and gave its design a thumbs-up. But he left office in 1797 and died in 1799, three years ...
Treasury offices were temporarily relocated to seven buildings along Pennsylvania Avenue between 19th and 20th streets while the Treasury building, other executive departments and President's House (White House) were reconstructed. The reconstruction took until 1817 under President James Monroe to complete. [4]: 4
Perhaps his success as the Secretary of State under President James Monroe or his 17 years representing Massachusetts in the House of Representatives overshadowed his four years in the White House ...
The White Cliffs estate is believed to be one of the last designed by the Herter Brothers, interior decorators who famously did work for the Vanderbilt family and the White House, according to the ...
Portrait of James Monroe is a c.1819 portrait painting by the American artist Samuel Morse of the President of the United States James Monroe. [1] Monroe was the fifth president to hold office, and the fourth from Virginia. From a slaveowning background, he had served in the American Revolutionary War.