White House Ghost Stories

[Anita]

Yes, it was Buchanan who built the conservatory. Victoria and Albert's Chrystal Palace was impressive indeed. It burned down in 1936.

Looking for White House silverware more is more likely.

"Dolly Madison was not inclined to garden—in those days, it was considered a pastime for men—but she may have invented the flower crown. “I will avail myself of your offer to chuse me a facinating Headdress,” she wrote to her friend Phoebe Pemberton Morris, who lived in Philadelphia. “It must be of large size—I enclose you 20$ my darling, & you will add to the Bonit or Turbin, some artificial Flower or fruit for the Head.”

James Madison, on the other hand, planted the first documented presidential vegetable garden. At the time, presidents paid the expenses of feeding guests out of their own pockets, and Madison’s list of seeds to purchase included several varieties of cabbages and radishes, as well as carrots, beets, parsnips, broccoli, and more. https://www.architecturaldigest.com/stor...ts-gardens