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"Celebrating the History of White House Interiors\nInspired by a new exhibition honoring Jacqueline Kennedy's founding of the White House Historical Association 50 years ago, AD looks back at photos of the executive mansion that have appeared in our pages\nCompleted in 1800, the White House was designed by Irish-born architect James Hoban. The main fa\u00E7ade, shown here, echoes that of Leinster House in Dublin, a mid-18th-century structure that was originally the mansion of the Duke of Leinster; today it houses the Irish Parliament.\nFirst Lady Jacqueline Kennedy shows off the Blue Room's early-19th-century candelabra in 1961, just prior to the celebrated redesign by St\u00E9phane Boudin of the French decorating firm Maison Jansen.\nWith the help of interior decorator Sister Parish, Jacqueline Kennedy transformed the West Sitting Hall\u2014the first family's living room\u2014into a space that was cozy enough for casual entertaining but still in keeping with the home's innate formality. The commode at right was a gift from French president Charles DeGaulle. Boudin designed the graceful curtain treatment.\nSister Parish also decorated Mrs. Kennedy's bedroom. The curtains were patterned after a set that hung in the First Lady's former bedroom in Georgetown\u2014a choice she later regretted, calling the fabric \"rather country-type material\" that didn't match the White House's neoclassical style.\nBoudin covered Mrs. Kennedy's dressing room in blue silk. His touch is also apparent in a leopard-skin throw, shown here resting on the button-tufted chaise longue. On the walls are Kennedy family photographs and 19th-century engravings depicting decorative window treatments.\nIn the early '80s, First Lady Nancy Reagan enlisted Beverly Hills decorator Ted Graber to help with her update of the private rooms, but she left Mrs. Kennedy's treatment of the Red Room largely unchanged.\nDuring the Reagan Administration, the West Sitting Hall was redecorated using furnishings brought from the Reagans' California residence.\nThe First Lady's dressing room, decorated by Graber for Mrs. Reagan, was done in a floral fabric. The same material was used for the curtains, the valances, and the upholstery of button-tufted slipper chairs and a Louis XVI\u2013style daybed.\nPrints of colorful wildflowers hang above the sofa in Nancy Reagan's office, which Graber clothed in almond-green. Most of the furniture was already in the White House's collection and simply reupholstered.\nNancy and Ronald Reagan's bedroom was a cream-color space lined with hand-painted chinoiserie wallpaper depicting flocks of birds perched in a grove of bamboo.\nLaura Bush in the East Sitting Hall with her cat, Willie, in 2008. The room was decorated with the assistance of Fort Worth, Texas, interior designer Ken Blasingame; he called the First Lady's taste \"very clean, very fresh.\" Blasingame also worked on the Bushes' ranch in Crawford, Texas.\nThe Green Room, which served as Thomas Jefferson's dining room and James Monroe's parlor, was refreshed in 2007. Mrs. Bush and Blasingame collaborated with White House curator William Allman and the Committee for the Preservation of the White House to produce the new look, which features Duncan Phyfe antiques and a Savonnerie-style carpet.\nThe Lincoln Bedroom was restored during the Bush administration and nods to Lincoln's time in the White House, with its period-style valances and its marble chimneypiece copied from one that was in the room in the 1860s. The hand-blocked wallpaper was custom made for the project by Adelphi Paper Hangings.\nSo called because royals have often occupied it, the Queens' Bedroom has traditionally been furnished with early-American antiques that give it a New England\u2013like atmosphere."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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