White House Office of the Curator

White House Curator
	Incumbent; Vacant
	Executive Residence
Appointer	President of the United States
Formation	1961
First holder	Lorraine Waxman Pearce
Website	www.whitehouse.gov

The White House Office of the Curator is charged with the conservation and study of the collection of fine art, furniture and decorative objects used to furnish both the public and private rooms of the White House as an official residence and as an accredited historic house museum.

A marble bust of George Washington by sculptor Giuseppe Ceracchi (1751–1801) receives conservation work in the China Room.

The office began in 1961 during the administration of President John F. Kennedy while First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy oversaw the restoration of the White House.[1] The office is located in the ground floor of the White House Executive Residence. The office, headed by the Curator of the White House, includes an Associate Curator, an Assistant Curator, and a Curatorial Assistant. The office works with the Chief Usher, the Committee for the Preservation of the White House and the White House Historical Association.

The most recent White House Curator is Lydia Tederick, appointed in 2017. Previously it was William G. Allman, who was appointed by President George W. Bush in 2002 and retired in June, 2017.[2]

Curators' charge

The Curator of the White House, or less formally White House Curator, is head of the White House Office of the Curator which is charged with the conservation and study of the collection of fine art, furniture and decorative objects used to furnish both the public and private rooms of the White House.

The first Curator of the White House was Lorraine Waxman Pearce who was appointed in March 1961. Pearce was a graduate of the preservation program at the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum.

Curators of the White House

White House Ground Floor showing location of the Office of the Curator.

To date seven curators have served in the White House; they are:

№	Name (Birth–Death)	Term of Office	President(s)
Post established in 1961
1	Lorraine Waxman Pearce	1961–1962	John F. Kennedy
2	William Voss Elder III	1962–1963	John F. Kennedy
3	James R. Ketchum	1963–1969	John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon
4	Clement Conger (1912–2004)	1970–1986	Richard Nixon Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan
5	Rex Scouten (1924–2013)	1986–1997	Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush Bill Clinton
6	Betty C. Monkman	1997–2002	Bill Clinton George W. Bush
7	William G. Allman	2002–2017	George W. Bush Barack Obama Donald Trump
8	Lydia Tederick	2017-present	Donald Trump

Footnotes

"Curator's Office". The White House Museum.
Thompson, Krissah; Koncius, Jura. "White House curator to retire after working with first families for decades". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 January 2018.

References

Abbott James A., and Elaine M. Rice. Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration. Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1998. ISBN 0-442-02532-7.
Garrett, Wendell. Our Changing White House. Northeastern University Press: 1995. ISBN 1-55553-222-5.
Monkman, Betty C. The White House: The Historic Furnishing & First Families. Abbeville Press: 2000. ISBN 0-7892-0624-2.
The White House: An Historic Guide. White House Historical Association and the National Geographic Society: 2001. ISBN 0-912308-79-6.

External links

White House website biography of curator William G. Allman

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[1] "Curator's Office". The White House Museum.

[2] Thompson, Krissah; Koncius, Jura. "White House curator to retire after working with first families for decades". The Washington Post. Retrieved 29 January 2018.

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