The White House: its historic furnishings and first families

President's house in the early years, 1789-1814

French taste at its White House zenith, 1817-29

People's president and the Jacksonian Era, 1830-40s

Revivals of the "Antique" at mid-Century, 1850s-60s

Renaissance revivals and the Aesthetic Movement, 1870s-1890s

National identity and the Colonial Revival, 1900-1950s

Museum evolves from a collection

Important acquisitions, 1961-2000.