Dream House: The White House as an American Home
- ISBN-10
- 0926494651
- ISBN-13
- 9780926494657
- Series
- Dream House
- Category
- Travel / United States / South / South Atlantic (DC, DE, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
- Pages
- 304
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Acanthus Press
- Authors
- Ulysses Grant Dietz, Sam Watters
Description
Recognizable to millions as a symbol of the American presidency, the White House was first an American home. From 1800 until 1960, it kept pace with changing ideals of the American house and garden. That ended when Jacqueline Kennedy redecorated the White House as a museum to upper-class taste. Today the Obamas are pulling it back to its role as an American home. This book looks at the president's house in the context of American house design and decoration. Hundreds of historic photographs, plans, and drawings compare it to other American houses, gardens, and interiors, showing the White House as it changed through decades of interior renovation, rebuilding, and landscaping.--From publisher description.
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