President Harry S. Truman consulted Congress, architects and a fine arts commission on everything from construction plans to ...

Personal tastes of presidents - as well as the demands of a growing federal government - has helped dictate changes over time ...

In its 225-year history, the White House has been burned by British troops, reconstructed, expanded, and gut-renovated. This ...

President Trump’s construction of a grand ballroom attached to the White House — starting with the demolition of part of the ...

The most sweeping intervention before Trump’s was the Truman Reconstruction of 1948–1952, a project so ambitious that only ...

Ground crews cut down trees and shrubs on the South Lawn in preparation in September for the $250 million, 90,000-square-foot ...

The White House Historical Association noted that when Roosevelt renovated the White House, the Washington Post said the ...

Betty Ford reportedly said that if the White House West Wing is the "mind" of the nation, then the East Wing is the "heart." ...

The [Lincoln] bathroom was done by the Truman family a long time ago and done in green tile, and it's done as — in a style ...

Of the states’ 125 Truman scholars from 2015 to 2024, 60 winners – or nearly half of those surveyed at 48 percent – went on ...

Donald Trump has decided to renovate the White House and demolish the East Wing to build his ballroom. This decision has received mixed reactions on social media. While some netizens were clearly ...

Amid President Trump's controversial plan to add a ballroom to the White House, a look back at history shows other ways ...