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The firm of Herter Brothers,, was founded by German immigrants Gustave and Christian Herter in New York City. It began as a furniture and upholstery shop/warehouse, but after the Civil War became one
"Mr. William H. Vanderbilt's Drawing-Room," (1882).
High Museum of Art Cabinet, 1875, ebonized cherry, veneer inlays, and metallic foil decorative paper.
William Gilman Nichols, director of Herter Brothers from 1891 to 1906; portrait by his brother-in-law, Harry Watrous.
The mausoleum of Gustave Herter
The State Dining Room is the larger of two dining rooms on the State Floor of the Executive Residence of the White House, the home of the president of the United States in Washington, D.C. It is used
Herter Brothers
…Executing the designs of architect Charles Follen McKim, Herter Brothers created the plaster ceiling and ornately carved oak paneling for the expanded State Dining Room. The firm's workshops also provided the heavily carved paneling for the renovated East Room. Very few Herter Brothers interiors remain extant. "Elm…
White House State Floor plan, 1803.
John Adams's blessing was carved into the state dining room mantel in 1945, during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
State Dining Room during the Pierce administration (1853 to 1857). Note the use of the Polk chairs.
State Dining Room after the 1902 renovation.