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SOUTH FRONT, FROM ACROSS GROUNDS - White Sulphur Springs, President's Cottage, U.S. Route 60, White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, WV
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SOUTH FRONT, FROM ACROSS GROUNDS - White Sulphur Springs, President's Cottage, U.S. Route 60, White Sulphur Springs, Greenbrier County, WV
Description
Van Buren; Tyler; Fillmore; Johnson
Depicted place West Virginia; Greenbrier County; White Sulphur Springs
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 4 x 5 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS WVA,13-WHISP,1D-1
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: Built by Stephen Henderson as a private residence, and was the first private cottage of such scale in the White Sulphur Springs resort complex. Name derives from the fact that many U.S. Presidents, through Lyndon Johnson, have stayed in the building. Served as the summer White House for presidents Van Buren, Tyler and Fillmore.
  • Survey number: HABS WV-131-D
  • Building/structure dates: 1816 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1957 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/wv0226.photos.172204p
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