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The "Summer White House" is typically the name given to the summer vacation residence of the sitting president of the United States aside from Camp David, the mountain-based military camp in Frederick County, Maryland, used as a country retreat and for high-alert protection of presidents and their guests.
Walker's Point Estate (or the Bush compound) is the summer retreat of the Bush family, in the town of Kennebunkport, Maine. It lies along the Atlantic Ocean in the northeastern United States, on Walker's Point. The estate served as the Summer White House of George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.
The Ulysses S. Grant Cottage was the Summer White House of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant in Elberon, a part of Long Branch, New Jersey. Grant vacationed at the cottage starting in the summer of 1867, and thereafter spent three months of every summer there until 1885. He held cabinet meetings and composed parts of his memoirs at the cottage ...
It served as a summer White House, a political headquarters, and most important, a cherished home where the Kennedys sailed, played touch football, and created lasting memories. Read on to see ...
The historic cottage, built in the Gothic revival style, was constructed from 1842 to 1843 as the home of George Washington Riggs, who went on to establish the Riggs National Bank in Washington, D.C. Lincoln lived in the cottage June to November 1862 through 1864 and during the first summer living there, Lincoln drafted the preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation.
The sprawling 9-bed, 6.5 bath, 4,484-square-foot house built in 1925 would become known as "the Summer White House" during Kennedy's presidency. The note, dated Jan. 2, 1957, is signed by JFK.
The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site in Plymouth has a new exhibit on the second floor of the Cilley General Store, all about Coolidge using the space as his "Summer White House" 100 ...
Blue Heron Farm is a 28-acre (11 ha)+ estate on Martha's Vineyard in Chilmark, Massachusetts, United States, that served as a summer vacation place – the "Summer White House" [1] – to President Barack Obama and his family during his presidency in 2009, 2010, and 2011.