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Presidential library and museum for U.S. President Harry S. Truman, located in Independence, Missouri
The major White House gut-and-rebuild project that began in 1948 (work ran roughly 1948–1952) was overseen by a committee and carried out under the authority of the federal government with engineering...
The War Department was statutorily abolished and reorganized by the National Security Act of 1947, effective September 18, 1947, and at that moment the incumbent Secretary of War was Kenneth C. Royall...
President Harry S. Truman ordered a near-total reconstruction of the White House between 1948 and 1952 that left only the exterior stone walls intact and replaced the building’s internal structure to ...
Contemporary accounts and institutional histories agree the Truman-era gutting and rebuilding of the White House (1948–1952) cost roughly $5.7 million at the time, a figure cited repeatedly by the Whi...
Harry S. Truman led by far the most extensive gutting and reconstruction of the White House in the modern era, effectively dismantling the interior and rebuilding on new foundations while keeping the ...
The Truman “reconstruction” gutted the White House interior between roughly 1948–1952 and is reported in multiple records as costing about $5.7 million (with some contemporary sources citing slightly ...
The well-documented cost to rebuild the White House interior under President Harry S. Truman is in 1950s dollars, with contemporary accounts noting an earlier estimate of $5.4 million that rose during...
The sources provided do not identify any specific who contributed to the White House Truman renovation (1948–1952); contemporary summaries and later retrospectives instead focus on the engineering, so...