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On November 30, 2022, President Joe Biden lighted the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse near the White House and celebrated the 100th year since the first lighting by President Calvin Coolidge on December 24, 1923. [225] The tree, a 27-foot white fir, today has 64,000 Christmas lights. [226]
Living trees were used from 1924 to 1953, and again from 1973 to the present (2011). In the list below, the height of the cut tree is the height of the tree when raised at the White House. The height of the living tree is the height when it was first planted. Several states and territories of the United States have provided these trees.
Traditionally, the tree in the Blue Room is the official White House Christmas tree. [26] [28] The White House Christmas tree usually stands nearly 20 feet (6.1 m) tall and the crystal chandelier in the Blue Room must be removed for the tree to fit the room. [28]
The official White House Christmas Tree is a simply colossal 18.5-foot Frasier Fir. They shipped it in from Fleetwood, North Carolina for the season. The tree has a "neighborhood" theme this year ...
The White House Christmas tree is selected at a contest hosted by the National Christmas Tree Association, the national trade association and advocacy organization for the farm-grown Christmas ...
Since 1966, the National Christmas Tree Association has donated the official Blue Room Christmas Tree to the White House. “It has to be 18 to 19 feet tall and no more than 12 feet wide,” said ...
NEWLAND, N.C. (AP) — The Cartner family had known since last year that one of their farm’s Christmas trees would be headed to the White House this winter. But then Hurricane Helene struck, unleashing a deadly deluge across western North Carolina, including Avery County, where Cartner’s Christmas Tree Farm has stood for decades. Though the ...
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