The White House - 1600 PA Avenue

In recent years, there have been plenty of political sex scandals, both on the Democrat and Republican sides of the spectrum. Of course, the most blatant scandal of them all which is still in the news was when Bill Clinton had sex ...

Sarah Yorke Jackson served as the unofficial First Lady to her father-in-law, President Andrew Jackson , from November 26, 1834 to March 4, 1837. She shared hosting duties with President Jackson's niece, Emily Donelson, then took over as the sole White House ...

Pat Nixon's given name was Thelma Catherine Ryan; however, her Irish father nicknamed her " While her husband was in the White House , Pat Nixon became the first incumbent First Lady to endorse the Equal Rights Amendment. While her husband was ...

Frances Clara Folsom Cleveland Preston was the wife of Grover Cleveland , the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States. She married President Cleveland at the age of twenty-one during his first term, and is both the youngest First Lady and ...

The best time to spot a ghost in the White House is at night. When John Adams and his wife Abigail moved into the White House in 1800, it was not quite completed. There were as many as eight seances held in ...

Stephen Grover Cleveland, born March 18, 1837, in Caldwell, New Jersey , was both the twenty-second and the twenty-fourth President of the United States. Cleveland lived in Fayetteville, New York , from 1841-50, but it was common practice for a church to ...

Mamie Geneva Doud was born to parents, John Shelton Doud and Elvira Carlson Doud on November 14, 1896 in Boone, Iowa. She decorated the rooms of the White House with flowers and paper decorations on holidays, held dinners, and supervised the White ...

Eleven of the 44 presidents have had cats that lived in the White House . During his tenure in the White House , Lincoln's son Tad had a cat named simply, Tabby. (Rutherford B. Hayes' cats are traditionally given the nod as ...

With all the hoopla over the Obamas' choice for first dog and the fact that the last 18 presidents all owned dogs it may seem as if our presidents lack imagination when it comes to choosing the family pet... In fact, only ...

Our nation's capital has many examples of classic architecture. There are many other examples of classic architecture throughout the Washington D.C. area, however. Charles Bulfinch was the original architect, and he began with The Thomas Jefferson building in 1897. The Jefferson building ...

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Topic: The White House

Commentary: Wives of politicians caught in sex scandals

Biography: Sarah Yorke Jackson

Biography: First Lady Pat Nixon

Biography: First Lady Frances Cleveland

Haunted places: The White House in Washington D.C.

Biography: Grover Cleveland

Biography: First Lady Mamie Eisenhower

Presidential felines: Cats that lived in the White House

A historical view of US presidential pets

An overview of the architecture of Washington, DC

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