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Jacqueline “Jackie” Kennedy’s 1962 Rose Garden redesign by Rachel “Bunny” Mellon established the modern, ceremonial lawn, central grass panel and clipped hedges still associated with the space today ....
Available reporting says Melania Trump’s 2020 Rose Garden renovation removed or relocated many Kennedy-era plantings — including most historic roses and roughly a dozen crabapple trees — but some elem...
The key finding is that multiple First Ladies have , from Jacqueline Kennedy’s high-profile 1961 historic restoration to Edith Wilson’s China Room completion and Melania Trump’s room refreshes, with p...
Yes — recent White House garden and landscape projects, especially under the Trump administration in 2025, have drawn public controversy and scrutiny over historic preservation, use of grounds, cost a...
Major White House projects under Nixon, Kennedy, Clinton and Obama were prompted by differing needs: functional re‑use and newsroom growth under Nixon (converting a pool into the press briefing room),...
The Kennedy-era 1962 Rose Garden, designed by Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, centered on a grassy lawn flanked by magnolias, crabapples and formal rose beds intended for ceremonies; recent 2025 work replaced ...
Jacqueline Kennedy led a major restoration of the White House during the Kennedy administration that focused on the State Floor and many principal rooms; by late 1963 “most of the state rooms on the g...
The Melania Trump 2020 renovation of the White House Rose Garden preserved several elements tied to Rachel “Bunny” Mellon’s 1962 layout while removing or replacing others, most notably crabapple trees...
The White House grounds and its component spaces — most notably the East Wing and the Rose Garden — have been repeatedly redesigned, repurposed, and contested from the early 1900s through 2025, with r...
The Rose Garden’s original purpose was to serve as a formal, colonial-style ornamental garden on the White House grounds that evolved into a during the Kennedy administration when Rachel “Bunny” Mello...
Jacqueline Kennedy played an active, facilitative role in the modern Rose Garden’s creation by introducing landscape designer Rachel “Bunny” Mellon to President John F. Kennedy and endorsing Mellon’s ...
Before the Trump-era 2020 renovation and later 2025 changes, the White House Rose Garden’s were a central rectangular lawn flanked by geometric plantings, low hedges and borders of roses, and specimen...