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Michelle Obama planted the White House's first organic garden and installed beehives on the South Lawn of the White House, which will supply organic produce and honey to the First Family and for state dinners and other official gatherings. [99] In 2020, First Lady Melania Trump redesigned the Rose Garden.
The Samuel Osgood House, also known as the Walter Franklin House, was the first official residence of the President of the United States.It housed George Washington, his family, and household staff, from April 23, 1789, to February 23, 1790, during New York City's two-year term as the national capital.
The First White House of the Confederacy is a historic house in Montgomery, Alabama, which was the initial executive residence of President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis and family during early 1861.
President George H.W. Bush was the first to use email in 1992, while the first White House website was produced under President Bill Clinton in 1994. Wikimedia Commons.
Grover Cleveland was the first president to serve non-consecutive terms, and the first president to be married (to Frances Folsom) at the White House. First president born in New Jersey. [173] First president to get married at the White House. [66] First president to have a child born in the White House. [67] [174]
Until the Polk administration, occupants of the White House relied on oil lamps and candles for illumination. In 1848, gas lines were installed on the first floor of the executive mansion for ...
The White House ruins after the fire of August 24, 1814, depicted in a watercolor painting by George Munger, is now on display at the White House Major General Robert Ross, the British commander who led the burning of Washington. After burning the Capitol, the British turned northwest up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the White House
Working with landscape architect George Burnap, Mrs. Wilson established the first proper rose garden, cementing roses as an unofficial White House symbol—so much so that Scottish stonemasons had ...