Jefferson's White House and ours
Finally got a chance to read thru WH History #17, which explores Jefferson's White House and includes a few terrific recent photos, which I've added. The part on Jefferson is rather thin on details about the house itself and deals more with servants and dining, but it did provide some interesting tidbits that I added to the 1803 first floor plan. I've also added a separate page for Jefferson's enhancements to the house.
UPDATE: New Green Room from Time.
posted by Derek @ 11:59 AM
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Finally, a beautiful clear photo of the WW foyer. Like the OO photos too!
Where did you get the newer photos from the WHHA? Are they coming out with a new guidebook finally?
I recently contacted the WHHA in regards to the next edition of "An Historic Guide". I was informed a new edition is scheduled to be released in 2008. However, they didn't offer an actual release date. Five years between editions is a long time, well for me anyway. I have a copy of every edition so far, and I'm anxious to add the newest one to my collection.
Rug and chairs. Is that all they did?
When I was in Ohio at my brother's house in Cincinnati after Katrina (what we New Orleanians like to call our "Katrina Vacation") - I took the opportunity to run over to Chillicothe, Ohio and see (at long last) "Adena" - the beautiful mountaintop villa that Latrobe designed for Ohio's first US senator, Thomas Worthington. What makes Adena interesting - aside from its being a sublime piece of architecture - is that it has exactly the same type of dumbwaiters that Jefferson used at the White House while he lived there. In fact there's an article in the issue of White House History that Derek mentions here. Worthington was senator when Jefferson was predsident and would have had the chance to see Jefferson's dumbwaiters first hand. If I can find a link to a picture of the dumbwaiters at Adena, I'll post it here. Oh - and William Seale was the historical consultant for the recent restoration of this amazing house.
OK, I checked it out and found a link to a site on the Ohio Historical Society's website:
http://www.ohiokids.org/adenahouse/mus-e.shtml
This link will take you to a website on the Adena house and also lead you to a virtual tour (360 degree panoramas kind of like the ones on the White House site). Either the panorama for the Dining Room or the Drawing Room will show the "Jefferson" dumbwaiters. And it's a really cool house to check out anyway.
Actually, I already had that picture on the new page about Jefferson's enhancements. Great minds run in the same channel...
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