Main entry:

Dietz, Ulysses G. (Ulysses Grant), 1955-

Title & Author:

Dream house : the White House as an American home / Ulysses Grant Dietz and Sam Watters. History of the White House architecture / by Thomas Mellins.

Publication:

New York : Acanthus Press, 2009.

Description:

304 pages : illustrations (color illustrations) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-293) and index.
Residents of the White House -- Country house 1801-1829 : living like landed gentry -- Villa 1829-1869 : living like American gentry -- Mansion 1869-1889 : keeping up with the joneses -- Palace 1889-1921 : keeping up with the Vanderbilts -- Suburban home 1921-1961 : keeping up with the Cleavers -- Shrine 1961-present : keeping up with the museums -- The people's house -- The making of an American home.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

9780926494657
0926494651

Subject:

White House (Washington, D.C.)
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture United States History.
Interior decoration United States History.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire.
Décoration intérieure États-Unis Histoire.
Architecture.
Architecture, Domestic.
Buildings.
Interior decoration.
Washington (D.C.) Buildings, structures, etc.
United States.
Washington (D.C.)
Weißes Haus
Washington <DC> Weißes Haus.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
History.

Added entries:

Watters, Sam, 1954-
Mellins, Thomas. History of the White House architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 266676
Call No.: BIB 198635
Status: Available