Editing White House (section)

=== Jacqueline Kennedy restoration ===
[[File:BoudinRedRoom.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Red Room (White House)|Red Room]], designed by [[Stéphane Boudin]] during the [[Presidency of John F. Kennedy|Kennedy administration]]]]

[[Jacqueline Kennedy]], wife of President [[John F. Kennedy]] (1961–63), directed a very extensive and historic redecoration of the house. She enlisted the help of [[Henry Francis du Pont]] of the [[Winterthur Museum]] to assist in collecting artifacts for the mansion, many of which had once been housed there.{{r|wh museum kennedy}} Other antiques, fine paintings, and improvements from the Kennedy period were donated to the White House by wealthy philanthropists, including the [[Crowninshield family]], [[Jane Engelhard]], [[Jayne Wrightsman]], and the Oppenheimer family.

[[Stéphane Boudin]] of the [[Maison Jansen|House of Jansen]], a Paris interior-design firm that had been recognized worldwide, was employed by Jacqueline Kennedy to assist with the decoration.{{r|wh museum kennedy}} Different periods of the early republic and world history were selected as a theme for each room: the Federal style for the [[Green Room (White House)|Green Room]], French Empire for the [[Blue Room (White House)|Blue Room]], American Empire for the [[Red Room (White House)|Red Room]], Louis XVI for the [[Yellow Oval Room]], and Victorian for the president's study, renamed the [[Treaty Room]]. Antique furniture was acquired, and decorative fabric and trim based on period documents was produced and installed.{{r|wh museum kennedy}}

The Kennedy restoration resulted in a more authentic White House of grander stature, which recalled the French taste of Madison and Monroe.{{r|wh museum kennedy}} In the [[Diplomatic Reception Room (White House)|Diplomatic Reception Room]], Mrs. Kennedy installed an antique "Vue de l'Amérique Nord" wallpaper which [[Zuber & Cie]] had designed in 1834. The wallpaper had hung previously on the walls of another mansion until 1961 when that house was demolished for a grocery store. Just before the demolition, the wallpaper was salvaged and sold to the White House.

The first White House guidebook was produced under the direction of curator Lorraine Waxman Pearce with direct supervision from Mrs. Kennedy.{{r|OLizx}} Sales of the guidebook helped finance the restoration.

In a [[A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy|televised tour of the house]] on [[Valentine's Day]] in 1962, Kennedy showed her restoration of the White House to the public.{{r|CBSFeb12}}