Category Archives: Presidential Sites

Grover Cleveland, Commuter

Posted on April 2, 2018 by Feather Schwartz Foster

The Presidency has always come with very nice housing. Free. Presidents’ Residence By the time a President is elected, he is mature, established in a profession, and at least of middle class means. Some of our early POTUSes had magnificent … Continue reading →

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Harriet Lane and the James Buchanan Statue

Posted on August 28, 2017 by Feather Schwartz Foster

James Buchanan has been the cellar dweller among Presidents for more than 150 years. JB: The Balance Sheet The asset side. Pennsylvania’s James Buchanan (1791-1868) came to the presidency in 1857 with a forty-plus-year resume of solid achievement: successful attorney, … Continue reading →

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The White House New Year’s Day Reception

Posted on October 10, 2016 by Feather Schwartz Foster

After two years in New York and ten years in Philadelphia, the capital of the country was moved to Washington at the very end of 1800. The Dismal Days Washington DC was just opening for business in late 1800, after … Continue reading →

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Measuring George Washington

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Feather Schwartz Foster

After the American Revolution ended, the State of Virginia wanted to honor its most renowned son with a commemorative statue. Finding A Worthy Artist Fine art and fine artists were a rarity in Colonial America, perhaps because people were more … Continue reading →

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Thomas Jefferson’s Enlightened Palate

Posted on June 19, 2014 by Feather Schwartz Foster

Thomas Jefferson was always a slender man. He ate sparingly – but what he ate was always magnificently prepared from the finest ingredients available. Thomas Jefferson was unquestionably born with a brilliant and curious mind. As the poster  child of … Continue reading →

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Monticello and Sagamore Hill: Connected in Essence

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Feather Schwartz Foster

Presidential homes usually provide the essence of the men who lived there, but none better than Monticello and Sagamore Hill. Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello Thomas Jefferson was a Renaissance man of the Enlightenment. He somehow managed to compress half a dozen … Continue reading →

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The Herbert Hoover Presidential Site

Posted on August 16, 2013 by Feather Schwartz Foster

It is not Paris. It is not even Mt. Vernon. But history lovers must not overlook the charmer of an understated and underrated Presidential Birthplace and Library in tiny little West Branch, Iowa.  The Herbert Hoover Birthplace Herbert Hoover was … Continue reading →

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