Executive Mansions and Capitols of America(J5355)

by Jean Houston Daniel, Price Daniel | Nonfiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 9780516278780 Global Overview for this book
Registered by MRJIGGS of St. Louis, Missouri USA on 7/28/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by MRJIGGS from St. Louis, Missouri USA on Monday, July 28, 2008
discarded by library
hardback
290pp including index
published, 1969

Inside dust jacket:
I Pray Heaven to Bestow
The Best of Blessings on
THIS HOUSE
And All that shall hereafter Inhabit it.
May none but Honest and Wise Men ever rule
under This Roof.

This thoughtful prayer was written by President John Adams on his second night in the White House. Today it is inscribed on the mantel of the State Dining Room, where it attests to the continuity, the dignity and the importance of every Chief Executive in our country. The prayer might well be found in the home of every Governor and in the Capitol of every State, for it is in these Executive Mansions and Capitols that much of American history was made.

This handsome book depicts and describes that history by means of highly detailed and informative studies of every Capitol and Executive Mansion, including those of American Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, as well as the U.S. Capitol and the White House. The text is accompanied by over 100 full-color plates.

Among the more than 100 uncommonly interesting and varied histories of the Capitols and Mansions told in this book are these:

Morven, the handsome New Jersey Governor's Mansion, which was built in 1701 as a private residence and filled the role of the first "White House" of the newly independent United States;

La Fortaleza, in Puerto Rico, originally built as a fort in 1540 and since 1640 the official Governor's residence, making it the oldest building now used as an Executive Mansion;

the Executive Mansion of Hawaii, Washington Place, the home of Queen Liliuokalani until her death in 1917;

and the Oklahoma State Capitol, which is surrounded by oil wells.

This is American history and these the people who made it. Both are vividly described in Executive Mansions and Capitols of America...

Journal Entry 2 by MRJIGGS at Manchester, Missouri USA on Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Released 7 yrs ago (8/30/2016 UTC) at Manchester, Missouri USA

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